Luke Worth <luke / worth.id.au> writes: > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 00:06 +0900, Daniel Brockman wrote: > >> Why not use String#shift, which is O(1)? > > Because it doesn't exist :) Oh, that's as good a reason as any. :-) Who said there were no subtle differences between String and Array? I would like that person to explain this logic. -- Daniel Brockman <daniel / brockman.se>