From: "christophe.poucet@..." <christophe.poucet@...>
Date: 2005-09-13T13:01:32+09:00
Subject: Some suggestions

Dear,

I have two suggestions which I think would be useful in ruby.

First of all, I have noted that a sleeping thread (a thread that was
..stop'ed) does no longer have the method .stop... This means that one
must use
thread.stop unless thread.stop?
I would suggest implementing a stop method on a sleeping thread that is
basically a noop.

Secondly, I have noticed that the strip/lstrip/rstrip methods of String
do not take a string with the possible characters to remove.  Possibly
this could be changed, and then have as default value " ".  What I mean
is:

"aaabbbccc".lstrip("ab") => "ccc"
"abababccc".lstrip("ab") => "ccc"
"ababcabc".lstrip("ab") => "cabc"

Similarly for strip and rstrip.

With regards,
Christophe