From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-08-19T05:30:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp scanning with MatchData (Re: multiple regexp matches)

Austin Ziegler wrote:

> There's a simple solution, and I'll probably open an RCR about this
> if others agree with it. String#scan, #sub, and #gsub should yield
> MatchData objects, not Strings. 

I agree with this and it seems that matz only hasn't done this yet, 
because of backwards compatibility.

I'm referring to this posting of him:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1061229894.060091.14659.nullmailer%40picachu.netlab.jp

> What do you think?

I heavily agree with this. It's the way it should have been since the 
beginning. #to_str sounds like a way that shouldn't break to much code 
and Ruby could issue a migration warning when it is called.

Rite was said to sacrifice compatibility for the cost of more elegance 
so now might be a good time for switching.

Regards,
Florian Gross