From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-04T08:59:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01230] Re: A vote for old behavior

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01229] A vote for old behavior"
    on 00/02/03, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|Could I put in a vote for a return to the old behavior of 'gsub!' ?

Method chain like `str.gsub!(pat,repl).gsub!(pat,repl)' is error
prone, I think.  That's why I changed the behavior.

|Sometimes it's nice to be able to write
|
|  1 while gsub!(....)
|
|(for example while matching nested syntactical constructs)

  1 while gsub!(...) && $~
                    ^^^^^^
is a workaround for this case.

							matz.
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