From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T23:23:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23193] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

David Alan Black wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Tobias Reif wrote:
> 
> > David Alan Black wrote:
> >
> > > Hello --
> > >
> > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Paul Brannan wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>I also find myself reinventing the wheel in Ruby a lot, because some
> > >>library doesn't exist for Ruby or it doesn't work the way I want it to.
> > >>
> > >
> > > s/re// # in the circumstances you're describing :-)
> >
> >
> > I don't understand that. What's your point?
> 
> 
> Simply that if Ruby doesn't already have a (working) library of a given type,
> then Paul is *inventing* the wheel, not reinventing it.

More technically: 
s/re// is a Perl regular expression, substituting "re" with "".
In Ruby you would say instead: 

  # $_ = "...reinventing"
  sub(/re/, //)
  # puts


Regards,

  Michael

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