From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2008-02-19T13:50:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby M17N meeting summary

Martin Duerst wrote:
> This is a rough translation of the Japanese meeting summary
> (see [ruby-dev:33825]) by NARUSE, Yui.

Thank you very much, these are interesting news to hear about.

> == String#gsub(regexp, hash)
> Proposal to allow the following syntax:
>    String#gsub(regexp, {"&auml;"=>"\u00C4", ..})
> -> accepted

This is very nice; I've often had to use a pattern roughly like
   string.gsub(/#{hash.keys.join("|")}/){ h[$&] }
But shouldn't the syntax be more like this?
   String#gsub({"&auml;"=>"\u00C4", ..})
I can't really see a use case for keeping the regex separate from the 
hash... what happens in a case like this?
   "abc".gsub(/a/,{})
"a" gets deleted?

> == String#getbyte, String#setbyte
> -> accepted

Great! Will this method take/return integers or 1-byte-long strings?

> == Introducing require_relative
> Proposal to add require_relative, require'ing a file relative to the
> file where it is used.
> -> accepted

This is great news too.

--
Daniel