From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2002-01-17T07:41:56+09:00
Subject: Re: a wishlist for ruby 2.0

jobeicus@hotmail.com (Joseph Benik) writes:

> Ok i had two ideas for the next version of ruby but can only remember
> one at the moment.....
>
> tr should only require one argument, the second argument should
> default to '' if it isn't supplied.  this seems in the spirit of
> ruby's path of least resistance, and would be backwards compatible
>
> example:
>
> "string".tr('g')  =>  "strin"

You have that today with String#delete:

    "beef".delete('e') => "bf"

-- 
matt