From: Brian Wisti <brian@...>
Date: 2002-04-11T02:26:03+09:00
Subject: Re: delete a sequence of chars

You know, that is a _really_ cool feature.  I was confused by it for a second, 
but it's working similar to an array slice, yes?  The Principle of Least 
Surprise in action.

Frankly, having a language to what you would expect it to is almost a 
violation of the POLS!

Back to my coffee,
Brian Wisti

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 05:18 pm, Dave Thomas wrote:
> How about:
>
>      irbsh(main):001:0> a = 'http://www.hotpita.net'
>      irbsh(main):002:0> a['http://'] = ''
>      irbsh(main):003:0> a
>      "www.hotpita.net"
>
>
> Dave

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