From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T22:52:04+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR?

On 5/4/07, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/4/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > There would be another road to talk of course but it will brake to much
> > code.
> >
> > String#delete_all( str_or_rgx )
> > String#delete_first( str_or_rgx)
> > String#delete_last(str_or_rgx) # (1)
> > String#delete an alias to String#delete_all
> > and of course the same thing for the ! variations of these methods
> >
> >
>
> Getting OT, here but am I the only fool who constantly forgets that
> String#delete is _not_ destructive like (Array|Hash)#delete_at ?
No I checked in Rdoc and double checked in irb before writing this.
But I feel that it is good as it is.
Now to answer your question, neither you nor I are the only fools ;)
>
> I proceed to fix my problem:
>
> class String
>    alias without delete
which is worth a serious consideration!!! I think it is very readable

what about

without_all (aliased to without)
without_first
without_last
and
delete_all!
delete_first!
delete_last!
that would definitely make things easier for us fools ;)


> end

>
> "abc".without("a")
pretty cool
>

Robert

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