From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-11-18T22:04:43+09:00
Subject: Re: About Regular Expressions

On Thursday 18 November 2004 05:34 am, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
| Lately there have been a bunch of posts on this list about regular
| expressions in Ruby and people seem to cry wolf whenever they don't get
| them quite right.  By crying wolf here I mean that they suspect a bug.
| That's most often the same as blaming core-dumps on the operating
| system.  It's time that people try to reason about what they've actually
| written and look at the documentation (which may be too limited?) before
| complaining here.

This is terrible. Not only is it unfair to disenfranchise newbies who, for 
obvious reasons, would struggle with regular expressions, but the whole 
premise if false. (ASFICT) I am responsible for most if not all the latest 
R.E. posts. And I do not recall once suspecting a bug. I have asked about 
extending features (such as Regexp.arity) and whether certain existing 
features might not be more useful if they worked differently (like #scan). 
Never did I cry wolf. (For a taste of your own medicine) Perhaps it's time 
for you to try to read more carefully.

T.