From: Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists <tpo2@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T20:46:15+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR?

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> In message "Re: RCR?"
>    on Fri, 4 May 2007 19:15:44 +0900, "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |Currently I am writing lots of code like this:
> |
> |"some string".gsub(/s/,"") # I am using more complex rgxs therefore
> |# String#delete is not an option.
> |
> |I would like to write
> |"some string".gsub(/s/)
> |instead.
> |
> |There are two roads to walk:
> |(a) Allow String#delete to have a Regex
> |(b) Give String#gsub, String#sub, String#gsub! and String#sub! the
> |empty string as default for parameter replacement.
>
> Could you tell me why you want to reduce tiny three letters?
> I feel like explicit empty replacement describes user's intention more
> precisely than omitted default empty.
>
> How do you think comparing those two:
>
>  "some string".gsub(/s/,"")
>  "some string".gsub(/s/)

I must say that the latter looks quite intuitive to me: replace /s/ by 
... um, well, nothing :-)
*t

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