From: David Leal <david@...8f.org>
Date: 2002-09-07T18:41:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

Andrew Hunt wrote:

> But you've piqued my curiosity: tell me, what did you find
> surprising about Ruby?  Where "surprising" is defined as
> "you thought it worked one way" and then discovered that it did not,
> or that it worked that way some of the time and some other way
> the rest of the time?

Here are two more:

"abcd"[0] # => 97 (!!! Shouldn't this be "a"?)

and

"abcd".sub( /ab/ ) { |match|
  match[0] # => 97  (Huh? Shouldn't match be a MatchData?)
} # => "97cd" (Should be "abcd")

Ruby is my favorite language, but as long as we are all humans
there will always be surprises...

Cheers, 

David