From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-10-02T04:26:04+09:00
Subject: Re: suggested changes for ruby libraries

On 10/1/05, Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I do not believe that this necessary.
> >
> >     # Equivalent to your ...LAST suggestion
> >   "hello".index("lo") + ("lo".size - 1)
> I actually think LAST (though I'd say :last) is a cleaner sulution there
> - it avoids repeating the "lo", and it's definitely a useful use case.

Well, "lo" wouldn't be what gets repeated. It'd be more like:

  str.index(find) + (find.size - 1)

-austin
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