From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-06-03T15:49:33+09:00
Subject: Re: case of sub! not working

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Macdonald" <ian@caliban.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: case of sub! not working


> Thanks for the explanation. This definitely violates the principle of
> least surprise, however, and I consider it a bug. At the very least, it
> should go into the documentation, including the FAQ.

A surprise but not a bug. Things that interact with
the outside world sometimes work that way in Ruby.
A similar example is cgi.params which is hash-like
but is not a hash. (Of course, it's changed somewhat
since I started playing with it.)

Hal