From: tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
Date: 2004-02-02T07:04:49+09:00
Subject: Re: principle of most suprise

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 at 21:24 GMT, Maik Schmidt <contact@maik-schmidt.de> wrote:

> split will always return an Array (see "Ruby in a nutshell, p. 54).

i read that a number of times before i posted...that's why i was stumped

> You do not have to force this explicitly by using the Array constructor.

i don't know what i was thinking...you'd never know it, but i'm a better
programmer than that :/

> And if you want to do so, you have to use '()' not '[]' :-))

i want to thank everyone for the polite replies :) it must have been hard
restraining yourselves :)


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