"Phrogz" <phrogz / mac.com> wrote in message 
news:39c9670f-96c8-439d-b2bf-945b7cbbd126 / t2g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
On Oct 31, 10:35 pm, "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality"
<ihates... / hotmail.com> wrote:
> [...] As others have pointed out, it's:
> string[-index..-1]
> [...] It would be better if there were some method of
> getting the tail end of a string by only mentioning the needed parameters
> once. I'm very surprised that Ruby does not have this level of
> expressiveness...

Is what I've done above a misquote? (Both these statements seem
attributed to you in the same message on comp.lang.ruby.)

Assuming it's not a misquote: how is the code you wrote on the second
quoted line above not exactly what you're "surprised that ruby does
not have"?




    I'm sorry, my client is not quoting this post for some no good reason...

    You haven't misquoted, it was simply my mistake.  I was conflating two 
different posts and while I was revising this one, I accidentally included 
this portion which, as you've pointed out, is no longer valid...