From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-11-22T16:17:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26120] Re: Linux Magazine article

>>>>> "J" == Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> writes:

J> Yes, thanks Guy, but this looks worse than the Perl code :) What would be a

 I don't really like regexp, and probably this is why when I use it this is
 always ugly :-))

J> succinct way to do this in Ruby I wonder... I know this idiom is used a lot in
J> Perl.

 Because apparently in perl they like to use regexp, even when it's not
 appropriated 

 I don't think that all idiom of perl are good idioms


Guy Decoux