From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2009-11-01T14:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you get the tail end of a string?

On Oct 31, 10:35 pm, "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality"
<ihates...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> [...] As others have pointed out, it's:
> string[-index..-1]
> [...] It would be better if there were some method of
> getting the tail end of a string by only mentioning the needed parameters
> once.  I'm very surprised that Ruby does not have this level of
> expressiveness...

Is what I've done above a misquote? (Both these statements seem
attributed to you in the same message on comp.lang.ruby.)

Assuming it's not a misquote: how is the code you wrote on the second
quoted line above not exactly what you're "surprised that ruby does
not have"?