> I'll take a stab at it. I can't promise that
> what I say is correct.

I gotcha.  Ruby is doing this to avoid having to track the actual
changes to the string (outside of changes to ENV), and/or dealing
with copy-on-write semantics.

Interesting; thanks.



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