From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T21:42:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:56:01 +0900, trans.  (T. Onoma)
<transami@runbox.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 December 2004 12:00 am, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> | I feel it might be difficult.  Define the following:
> |   "abc\n".split("\n").join("\n")
> "abc\n".split("\n",-1).join("\n")
> => "abc\n"

> Make default behavior -1.

No. Most of the time, I don't actually *want* all the extra crap when
I split. This change would break a lot of code silently.

-austin
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