From: Antonio Cangiano <acangiano@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T03:31:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange ruby-1.9.1 array substitution answer

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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Michel Demazure <michel@demazure.com>wrote:

> Strange !
>
> arr = [1,2,3,4,5]
> arr[0,2] = nil
> => ruby 1.8 : arr = [3,4,5]
> => ruby 1.9 : arr = [nil, 3,4,5]
>
> ruby -v
> ruby 1.9.1 (2008-10-28 revision 19983) [i386-mswin32]


It's a bug. They either fixed it in a more recent version or it's a Windows
specific issue. On my Mac it works as expected:

$ ruby1.9 -v
ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i386-darwin9]

$ irb
>> arr = [1,2,3,4,5]
=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>> arr[0,2] = nil
=> nil
>> arr
=> [3, 4, 5]

Cheers,
Antonio
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