From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2007-07-26T00:39:23+09:00
Subject: Re: A question of style...

Tanner,
         It's not quite the point.  At the moment they are being
accessed directly, bf you're going to use a clone, to ensure you don't
manipulate the var being passed in, you'd either have to do one of the
following, and that's a matter of taste.

def initialize(url)
    @url=cleanURL(url.cone)
    ....
end
or

def initialize(url)
    @url=url.clone
    cleanURL
    ....
end

def cleanURL()
    @url.gsub!(whatever)