From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2001-01-10T02:04:05+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:8941] Re: String confusion Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:8939] Re: String confusion" on 01/01/10, David Alan Black writes: |What's the reason for some of the rb_xxx_modify functions |being defined static, and some (at least string.c's) not? Well, I made every functions static unless they are referred from other files until 1.6.x (in fact 1.7.0 too). This might be change in the future. matz.