From: RK Sentinel <sentinel.2001@...>
Date: 2009-01-22T23:11:16+09:00
Subject: Re: String doesnt auto dup on modification

Thanks for all the helpful replies. Its my first venture: a widget 
library.

Here's an example: Sometimes a string is passed to a class, say, using 
its set_buffer method (which is an _optional_ method).

set_buffer just assigns it to @buffer. But deep within the class this 
variable is being edited using insert() or slice!() (and this IS 
necessary) since the widget is an editing widget. So its not so clear 
when i added set_buffer method that this would happen.

As and when i discover such bugs in my code, I start adding dup(), and 
yes sometimes these lines bomb when another datatype is passed (I had 
asked this in a  thread recently: respond_to? dup was passing, but the 
dup was failing).

Yesterday, I had written an Action class which can be used to create a 
menuitem or a button. The string used in the Action constructor can be 
like "&Delete".
Button and Menuitem remove the "&" using a slice!(). And i was wondering 
why the second usage was failing  to find the "&".

Anyway, i realize its more my incompetence, and i must be careful with 
destructive methods, but I just thought maybe there's some other way to 
do this, so i am not leaving it to my memory.

Thanks again for the helpful replies. The ruby community really rocks 
when it comes helping others.
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