From: Christian Szegedy Date: 2001-05-16T02:03:00+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:15189] Re: operator idea Corrected: Michael Neumann wrote: > Use str << "hello\n" in this case instead, which do not copy the object. Of course, I know. Exactly that was my point. Look at the benchmark, how dramatic is the difference between the two variants! You can win the same for (or loose if it won't be changed...) other operators. I think the numbers are quite impressive. I hope you read my postings more carefully than I write them...:) Best Regards, Christian