From: Dave Bass <davebass@...>
Date: 2008-05-31T20:33:52+09:00
Subject: Re: splitting help needed

7stud -- wrote:
> Ahh, but the governing principle in the Ruby community is to make a Ruby 
> script look as much like a Perl script as possible--efficiency be 
> damned.  So who in their right mind would pass up a chance to use a 
> hieroglyphic regex like: /\|/ in their code.  That's art.

Larry Wall (Perl supremo) has called this sort of thing LTS: leaning 
toothpick syndrome. But Perl's syntax allows you to write a regexp as 
m(\|), which is a bit clearer. Or you can use the quotemeta() function 
to add a backslash for you.

But this is Ruby, not Perl! :-D

Coming from 10 years of Perl coding, I wish Ruby were *less* Perl-like, 
as it can get confusing, especially when you're working in both 
languages at the same time.
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