From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-12-20T15:03:39+09:00
Subject: Re: String#slice! doc bug?

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Gavin Kistner wrote:
> From:	Daniel Berger [mailto:djberg96@gmail.com]
>> The docs for String#slice! say, "The forms that take a Fixnum will raise
>> an IndexError if the value is out of range."
> 
> Perhaps the docs are describing what the documenter hoped would be implemented. My C is very rusty, but I don't see anything in string.c related to slice! that would raise errors for that.

Neither do I.

> I'd mention the bug on the ruby-core or ruby-doc lists (depending on whether the code or documentation is perceived to be at fault).

Roger that.  I'll file a bug report.

Regards,

Dan
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