From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@...>
Date: 2002-06-02T14:32:08+09:00
Subject: Re: String#slice! changed behavior

Sun, 2 Jun 2002 07:40:43 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> pisze:

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

So what about "abcd".slice!('x'), "abcd"['x'] = 'y', "abcd"[/x/] = 'y'
and finally "abcd".sub!(/x/, 'y')? They all don't raise exceptions.
I don't say that they all should but that it's somewhat inconsistent.

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