From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-04-25T16:45:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14204] Re: gsub and literal strings

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:14203] gsub and literal strings"
    on 01/04/25, Joel VanderWerf <skeeler@sirius.com> writes:

|Question: why doesn't gsub distinguish between a string and a regexp in its 
|first argument, whereas []= does?

How about

  "foo $x baz".gsub(Regexp::quote('$x'), 'bar')