From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-08-10T20:26:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Method arguments.

On 10/08/06, Sard Aukary <sardaukary@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there a way  to refer to the arguments passed to a function, so I can
> avoid re-stating the argument inside it like the example below?
>
> puts "this is a test"[4.."this is a test".length]
>
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>
Is there a reason you can't put it in a varialbe beforehand?

string = "this is a test"
puts string[4..string.length]

Farrel