From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-17T17:55:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01955] Re: Ruby Syntax similar to other languages?


In message "[ruby-talk:01954] Re: Ruby Syntax similar to other languages?"
    on 00/03/17, "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes:

|This is one place where I would very much prefer a vi/sed/perl scheme!
|
|Is it possible to add something (standard) so that we could do:
|
|foo.s
|foo.s!
|
|with an optional extra parameter string for perl-ish modifier characters
|such as "g"?

What's the benefit of foo.s(/pat/, "repl", "g") over foo.gsub(/pat/, "repl")?