From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-10T18:37:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01797] Re: Is this a bug?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01786] Is this a bug?"
    on 00/03/09, Clemens Hintze <clemens.hintze@alcatel.de> writes:

|(mailed & posted)

mailed only.

|I am using Ruby 1.4.3 yet! Now I have found a behavior that seems not
|in-line with the documentation.

Kernel#sub works like:

  $_ = $_.sub(/pat/, repl)

which does not modify the original $_ value, but update the value of $_.
I consider it a feature.

							matz.