From: "Brett H. Williams" <brett_williams@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T06:38:30+09:00
Subject: Re: change in class << for 1.8.0?

On Aug  5, Ben Giddings wrote:
> On Mon August 4 2003 3:48 pm, Brett H. Williams wrote:
> > Consider this:
> > 
> > #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> > msg = ARGV.shift
> 
> try msg = ARGV.shift.dup
> 
> I guess the elements of ARGV are immutable?

Bingo.  Thanks for the tip, problem solved.  It didn't occur to me that
ARGV was the problem.  Thanks!

> > class << msg
> >    def GetName; return self; end
> > end
> 
> Btw, it's probably a bad idea to name your methods with leading caps.

Yes--copied from the app which prompted the question which is implemented
in C++ with such capitalization.  I realize it isn't the norm, but is there
another reason you say it's a "bad idea"?