From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T03:44:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange ruby-1.9.1 array substitution answer


> 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]


Here's what I get in Linux with TRUNK.
>> RUBY_DESCRIPTION
=> "ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-05-28 trunk 23601) [i686-linux]"
>> arr = [1,2,3,4,5]
=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>> arr[0,2] = nil
=> nil
>> arr
=> [nil, 3, 4, 5]

maybe macs are special? "Guess we're not cool enough" (from commercial). 
Just kidding.
Take care.
-=r
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