From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-03-17T23:43:10-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01999] slice! ate my machine!


Don't try this one unless you have a spare shell window open and are
quick at typing 'kill -9 nnnn'!

    % ruby -v
    ruby 1.5.3 (2000-03-17) [i686-linux]

    % ruby -e 'p "hello".slice!(3,4)'
    <chewed up about 200M real memory in 10 seconds!>

Regards


Dave