From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T20:44:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23615] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 16:23, Michael Neumann wrote:
> 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: 
> 

Acctually it's also availiable in sed, vim, vi, awk (I think) and lot's
of other languages/programs ...

/Erik 

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