From: Garance A Drosehn <drosihn@...>
Date: 2006-06-28T06:56:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

On 6/26/06, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:
>
> It's funny, maybe I'm just dumb but I can't think of a single *real-world*
> example where you'd want to access particular characters of a string.

If that is the case, then why doesn't Ruby remove *all* substring
notation?  If everyone is so comfortable with manipulating strings
via regexp's, then why does the language bother to support
my_str[a..b] , my_str[a...b] , and my_str[a,b] ?

I don't mean to sound all-worked-up over this, but it does seem
hard to believe that those method calls for String are never used
in real-world code.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA