[MacRuby-devel] Bug in string comparison?

[Mark Rada]

Nevermind. The problem is not related to the string class, I'm just dumb and didn't realize I created a literal array.


Mark Rada
mrada at marketcircle.com



On 2011-04-07, at 12:12 AM, Mark Rada wrote:

> I've got a strange behaviour during string comparison that boils down to the following:
> 
> 
> 	class NSString
> 	  def predicate?
> 	    [-1] == '?'
> 	  end
> 	end
> 
> 	puts '?'.predicate? # => false
> 	puts '?'[-1]               # => "?"
> 	puts '?'[-1] == '?'    # => true
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a known side effect of how Strings are implemented now or if it is simply a bug.
> 
> I know it will work if I use a regexp, but this method is less code and faster.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark Rada
> mrada at marketcircle.com
> 
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