[#3109] Is divmod dangerous? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

14 messages 2000/06/06

[#3149] Retrieving the hostname and port in net/http — Roland Jesse <jesse@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2000/06/07

[#3222] Ruby coding standard? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

16 messages 2000/06/09

[#3277] Re: BUG or something? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> |I am new to Ruby and this brings up a question I have had

17 messages 2000/06/12
[#3281] Re: BUG or something? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2000/06/12

Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

[#3296] RE: about documentation — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> I want to contribute to the ruby project in my spare time.

15 messages 2000/06/12

[#3407] Waffling between Python and Ruby — "Warren Postma" <embed@...>

I was looking at the Ruby editor/IDE for windows and was disappointed with

19 messages 2000/06/14

[#3410] Exercice: Translate into Ruby :-) — Jilani Khaldi <jilanik@...>

Hi All,

17 messages 2000/06/14

[#3415] Re: Waffling between Python and Ruby — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

>Static typing..., hmm,...

11 messages 2000/06/14

[#3453] Re: Static Typing( Was: Waffling between Python and Ruby) — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

32 messages 2000/06/16

[#3516] Deep copy? — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>

Given that I cannot overload =, how should I go about ensuring a deep

20 messages 2000/06/19

[#3694] Why it's quiet — hal9000@...

We are all busy learning the new language

26 messages 2000/06/29
[#3703] Re: Why it's quiet — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...> 2000/06/30

Hi,

[#3705] Re: Why it's quiet — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2000/06/30

Hi,

[ruby-talk:03376] Re: chomp!

From: gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro)
Date: 2000-06-13 16:49:17 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3376
In message "[ruby-talk:03373] Re: chomp!"
    on 00/06/13, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:
> chop (i.e. the global function chop) modify $_
> string.chop (i.e. the method of String) don't modify string
>
>pigeon% ruby -e '$_ = "abc"; chop; p $_'
>"ab"
>pigeon% ruby -e '$_ = "abc"; $_.chop; p $_'
>"abc"
>pigeon% 
>
> This is a feature :-)

Wow, I don't know that!

Humm .... <reading string.c> .... gotcha!

  str = "abc"

  $_ = str; chop  ; p [$_, str] #=> ["ab", "abc"]
  $_ = str; chop! ; p [$_, str] #=> ["ab", "ab"]

-- gotoken

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