From: Jan Dvorak <jan.dvorak@...>
Date: 2008-01-05T07:06:55+09:00
Subject: Re: String#tr_s

On Friday 04 January 2008 22:44:48 Jordan Cooper wrote:
> This seems to be a pretty good example of a "built-in" function that I
> can't really see a practical use for... why does it need to be standard?
> Why is it named so cryptically? When would you ever want to use it?

It's named after the unix program 'tr' with parameter '-s' as in squeeze.

Jan