From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-12-16T00:31:35+09:00
Subject: Re: what does this do?

Tony Arcieri wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> >> "abcd"[0..2] = 'ggg'
>> => "ggg"
>>
>> What is going on here, anybody have any ideas?
>>
> 
> Ruby lets you invoke #[]= on literals. 

Thanks for your and Josh's replies. It makes sense now.
"abcd"[0..2] = 'ggg'

is replacing abc with ggg -- it's just that the result isn't stored 
anywhere :)
-r
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