From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-04-19T06:06:20+09:00
Subject: Re: String#clear

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> Today I was using an Array and a String to track some info in my unit
> tests.  I needed to clear them in the #teardown routine.  My first
> thought was:
> 
> [@some_arr, @some_str].each { |var| var.clear }
> 
> I was surprised when that exploded and I had to change it to:
> 
> @some_arr.clear
> @some_str.replace("")
> 
> Is there any good reason String can't have a #clear method?
> 
> James Edward Gray II

$ irb19
irb(main):001:0> "foo".clear
=> ""
irb(main):002:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.9.0"

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