From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-03-17T22:00:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Card tricks with Ruby

Hi --

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Stephen Waits wrote:

> Matthew Moss wrote:
>> deck = deck[x..-1] + deck[0...x]   # notice differing amounts of dots
>
> I find myself constantly pointing this out too.. is anyone else bothered by 
> it?  Has Matz weighed in on this in the past?
>
> It seems error-prone to me.  Extraordinarily more error-prone than other 
> "stuff" in Ruby.

Maybe I need more caffeine, but what exactly is the problem you're
referring to?


David

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