From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-09-26T05:25:48+09:00
Subject: String#ggsub

I occasionally find myself with gsub regexp that either eat too much,  
or work within a nesting, such that I need to run gsub more than once  
in order to get the desired end result. The code I end up writing  
tends to be of the form:

while foo.gsub!( /.../, ... ); end

Frankly, I really don't like that. It's like JS people who write  
things like:
for ( var walkerNode = this; walkerNode.parent; walkerNode =  
walkerNode.parent ){}
'abusing' the for loop construct to hold their logic.

Is there some other form in Ruby of "keep doing this until it returns  
nil" that is less...gross?