[ruby-talk:03372] Re: chomp!

Uh, there surely is something interesting things with chop-family. Could
somebody tell why plain chop isn't working like $_.dup.chop! ? I expect the
output should not include any "false".

@count = 1
def testcase( str )
	p "testcase #{@count}"
	@count += 1

	$_ = str.dup
	a = chop.dup
	b = $_.dup

	$_ = str.dup
	c = ($_.dup.chop!).dup   # should be about identical 
                             # to plain chop according to
                             # http://dev.rubycentral.com/ref/
                             # ref_m_kernel.html#chop
	d = $_.dup

	p a, b, c, d
	p a==c, b==d
	print "\n"
end

testcase( "foo\n" )
testcase( "foo\n" )
testcase( "foo\n" )

outputs:

"testcase 1"
"foo"
"foo"
"foo"
"foo\n"
true
false

"testcase 2"
"foo"
"foo"
"foo"
"foo\n"
true
false

"testcase 3"
"foo"
"foo"
"foo"
"foo\n"
true
false