From: Tachikoma <ikari.shinji.eva@...>
Date: 2008-07-16T11:25:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Array.drop doesn't work

On Jul 15, 11:46 pm, Li Chen <chen_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I try to use #drop to remove several elements from an array but it
> doesn't work.
> I check "ri Array.drop" and get no info about #drop. But I see this info
> described inhttp://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Array.html#M000343
>
> ary.drop(n) => array
>
> Drops first n elements from ary, and returns rest elements in an array.
>
>    a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0]
>    a.drop(3)             # => [4, 5, 0]
>
> I wonder what is going on.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Li
> #########
> C:\Documents and Settings\chen73>irb
> irb(main):001:0> a=[1,2,3,4]
> => [1, 2, 3, 4]
> irb(main):002:0> a.class
> => Array
> irb(main):003:0> a.drop(1)
> NoMethodError: undefined method `drop' for [1, 2, 3, 4]:Array
>         from (irb):3
> irb(main):004:0> a.drop(2)
> NoMethodError: undefined method `drop' for [1, 2, 3, 4]:Array
>         from (irb):4
> irb(main):005:0>
>
> #########
> C:\Documents and Settings\chen73>ri Array.drop
> Nothing known about Array.drop
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Here is the Changes List ,and Array#drop included
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/NEWS