From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-30T08:11:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Need a range, but not getting it. . . .

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Paul Lutus wrote:

> Okay, I agree, but I limited my remark to a string object getting ".to_s"
> applied to it, while really, always, has no effect, and returns the
> original object. And I see I should have said, "applying '.to_s' to
> anything other than a string usually makes a copy."

indeed.  i've been bitten the few times it hasn't though!  ;-)

-a
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