From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@...>
Date: 2008-04-25T04:05:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Function appends same value to string based on number of function  calls

* <vannuys@gmail.com> (19:56) schrieb:

>     def get_some_value
>       value = @text
>       value << '-New Value'
>       return value
>     end

You are appending to the string object pointed to by "value", which is
the same object "@text" is pointing to.

You might want:

def get_some_value
  "#{@text}-New Value"
end

mfg,                     simon .... hth