From: David Madden <moose56@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T02:26:03+09:00
Subject: what is dup?

I am playing with an example in the ruby cookbook where  a shuffle  
function is added to the array class:

class Array

   def shuffle!
     each_index do |i|
       j = rand(length-i) + i
       self[j], self[i] = self[i], self[j]
     end
   end

   def shuffle
     dup.shuffle!
   end

end

What I don't understand is the line "dup.shuffle!"

What is the dup object?

Dave.