From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-06-02T07:40:43+09:00
Subject: Re: String#slice! changed behavior

Hi,

In message "String#slice! changed behavior"
    on 02/06/01, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl> writes:

|For "abcd".slice!(/x/) ruby-1.6.7 does nothing and ruby from cvs
|raises IndexError. Was this change intentional?

Yes.  To make errors to be detected early.

"abcd".slice(10) raises IndexError, so should "abcd".slice!(/x/), I
thought.

							matz.