From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T08:49:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 05:55 pm, Ryan Davis wrote:
| To weigh in, I think the behavior of split should necessarily be
| compared to splits in other languages, as long as our split acts in a
| consistent and well behaved way. For me, that roughly means that there
| should be a 1:1 correlation between join and split. Namely, anything
| split (with a constant string/pattern) should be able to be joined back
| to the original using that constant string. This is not currently the
| case in ruby:
|
| irb(main):008:0> %w( aabb bbaa ).map do |s| s.split(/a/).join('a') ==
| s; end
| => [true, false]

This is good thinkings.

T.