From: Sard Aukary <sardaukary@...>
Date: 2006-08-11T03:33:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Method arguments.

Jim Weirich wrote:
> In your particular case, it can be restated as:
> 
>    puts "this is a test"[4..-1]
> 
> Where the -1 refers to the end of the string.
> 
> I'm not sure how your example relates to function arguments ... but is 
> this helpfull?
> 
> -- Jim Weirich

Ah yes, -1 is the most obvious way of to get the end reference.

I was just wondering if there was some sort of reflective way of getting 
a reference to the  "this is a test" string from with the [] method.

Thanks.

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