From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T03:52:25+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR?

Brian Candler wrote:
...
> class String
>   def -(re)
>     gsub(re,'')
>   end
> end
> 
> a = "some string"
> p a - /s/

That's better than aliasing - to delete, since the latter functionality 
can always be recovered with /[ ... ]/, and it adds the flexibility to 
do things like:

"the end" - "the"

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