From: Colin Steele <colin@...2.com>
Date: 2001-05-23T04:43:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15550] array.last and array[array.size - 1] not equivalent?


a = ['a', 'b', 'c']
a[a.size - 1] += 'd'  # ok
a.last += 'x'         # not ok

Why aren't these two equivalent?  Seems... weird.

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Colin Steele
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