From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-18T10:23:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01996] Re: Ruby Syntax similar to other languages?


In message "[ruby-talk:01962] Re: Ruby Syntax similar to other languages?"
    on 00/03/17, Clemens Hintze <clemens.hintze@alcatel.de> writes:

|> What's the benefit of foo.s(/pat/, "repl", "g") over foo.gsub(/pat/,
|> "repl")?
|
|Only to have not *two* methods, but only one. But then I would prefer
|an additional flags argument like this:

Hmm, saving brain's memory slot?

|But I think I can also live with the current 4 methods :-)

I welcome other's opinion.