From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2000-06-20T09:57:05+01:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03552] Re: A small quiz

On 20 Jun 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

> 
> 
> Andy and I were surprised by a Ruby feature. If you'd like, answer the
> following three questions without executing the code, then try it in
> Ruby and see if you were right. 
> 
>    a = "hi"
>    p a[0,1]       #=> "h"
>    p a[1,1]       #=>  ?
>    p a[2,1]       #=>  ?
>    p a[3,1]       #=>  ?
> 
> Anyone else surprised?

I did not expect that result.  I was more surprised when I used 
   p a[x,1].dump
but explaining why I was surprised would give others a clue...
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
	Hugh
	hgs@dmu.ac.uk