From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-11-30T05:11:25+09:00
Subject: Re: loop starting not from beginning

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:57:32AM +0900, Phlip wrote:
> ts wrote:
> 
> >>>>>> "P" == Phlip  <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> writes:
> > 
> > P> New question. What, if anything, is wrong with this?
> > P>  File.open("test").readlines.slice(5..-1) do |line|
> > 
> >  #slice don't take a block as argument :-)
> 
> Apologies to the newbie, but I think ... each ... of the rest of us can 
> figure out how to fix that.

In
	File.open("test").readlines.slice(5..-1).each do |line| 
		...
	end

File.open is working as a sinonym of File.new, so the File will remain
open, for the block is consumed by #each, not by #open. 

Now that last sentence sounds horrible! :P

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