From: Dat Nguyen <thucdat@...>
Date: 2000-03-18T07:09:58-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02004] Re: slice! ate my machine!

Is this a bug|feature ?

Dat

>From: Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com>
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp
>To: ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: [ruby-talk:01999] slice! ate my machine!
>Date: 17 Mar 2000 23:43:10 -0600
>
>
>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

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