From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-05-09T20:41:20+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby string slice/[] w/ range, weird end behavior (RANT)

On 9 May 2009, at 09:22, Robert Dober wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Eleanor McHugh
> <eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
>> Yes. We all have our moron moments. After all, the String.[]  
>> documentation
> Speak for yourself, I am *always* a moron (luckily I have no idea what
> that means).

I know exactly what you mean - let those who never write a bug throw  
the first rant :)

>> clearly states:
>>
>>     Element Reference---If passed a single +Fixnum+, returns a
>>     substring of one character at that position.
> Does it?
> Well I guess so, for Ruby1.8.* ;)

I pulled that straight from ri in my 1.9.1 install...

      From Ruby 1.9.1
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      Element Reference---If passed a single +Fixnum+, returns a
      substring of one character at that position.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason