From: Gareth Adams <gareth.adams@...>
Date: 2006-11-25T18:35:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] DictionaryMatcher (#103)

 <dblack <at> wobblini.net> writes:

Hi,

> What's the ruling on priority and "greediness"?  In other words,
> given:
> 
>    dm << "hi"
>    dm << "child"
> 
> what would:
> 
>    dm =~ "children"
> 
> give?

I'd say that given the example:

> > 	dm << "string"
> > 	dm.include?("stringing you along")  # => false

your example would return nil, as the purpose of DictionaryMatcher seems to be
to match whole words, and not derivatives