From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2006-04-19T06:34:29+09:00
Subject: Re: String#clear

James Gray wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
>>> @some_str.replace("")
>>>
>>> Is there any good reason String can't have a #clear method?
>>>
>>> James Edward Gray II
>>
>> $ irb19
>> irb(main):001:0> "foo".clear
>> => ""
>> irb(main):002:0> RUBY_VERSION
>> => "1.9.0"
> 
> Sweet:  now I'll move to the obvious follow-up question...  Why are
> we not adding this to Ruby 1.8.x?

For future compatibility:

class String
  instance_method(:clear) rescue def clear
                                   replace ""
                                 end
end

> James Edward Gray II
--Greg


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