From: RK Sentinel <sentinel.2001@...>
Date: 2009-01-22T04:19:26+09:00
Subject: Re: String doesnt auto dup on modification

> - Do you habitually dup() your string ?
> 
> Is there some clean way of handling this that I am missing.
To continue:

In some critical places in my app I had done:

def set_value str
  @buffer = str.dup
end

def get_value
  @buffer.dup
end

Is this the norm? Do you do this generally, to avoid accidental changes 
?
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