Ruby on Rails Tuesday, February 1, 2011

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Philip Hallstrom <philip@pjkh.com> wrote:

> ruby-1.8.7-p330 :007 > "one two three".truncate(7)
>  => "one ..."
>
> In my opinion, that space shouldn't be there.

> Anyone have any thoughts on the matter?

I can imagine circumstances involving fixed-width fonts where having
an unpredictable number of characters left would be bad, and at the very
least a POLS violation.

And personally, the space being included doesn't bother me. :-)

FWIW!
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