From: "SHIGETOMI, Takuhiko" <tshiget1@...>
Date: 2005-09-22T14:07:14+09:00
Subject: Re: hi, i'm new. plus one question

i am also a ruby-newbie.
so i am not sure that i could answer enough to your question but...

> idea = ["a","b","c","d"]
> x = idea.pop
> puts idea
> 
> why is idea changed? how do i make it stay the same?

because pop is an explicit manipulator, even if it is not followed by '!'.

i guess you simply can use idea.last instead of pop.

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