From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-06-27T02:03:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On 6/26/06, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> > irb(main):001:0> "It's needlessly cryptic."[/./]
> > => "I"
> > Not disagreeing, just trying to get more credit for regexes.
> > irb(main):010:0> "It's needlessly cryptic."[/.{17}(.)/, 1]
> > => "r"
> > That's a bit more cryptic.
> It's funny I'm always forgetting you can index by regexp. But this
> brings up a good point, this is Ruby, with the new Hash / named
> argument syntax we can do:
>
> "It's needlessly cryptic."[byte:2]
>
> This doesn't add anything at all to the conversation, but I think it
> looks good, and it's in the "make similiar things look similar" vein.
>
> Indexing Strings
>
> s[0]      # The first character
> s[/./]    # The first character
> s[byte:0] # The first byte (of a string with some non ascii
> compatible encoding)

I kinda like that.

-austin
-- 
Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/
               * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/
               * austin@zieglers.ca