From: Gary Yngve <gary.yngve@...>
Date: 2009-02-11T02:29:11+09:00
Subject: Regexp ops: get rid of !=~?

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The proper way to see if something doesn't match is
"foo" !~ /bar/

The ~/blah/ operator exists to apply to $_

Unfortunately this means that

"foo" !=~ /bar/

does

"foo".!= (~bar), which doesn't produce an error, even though it's basically
garbage.
Instead it fails silently by returning true (nil or an number are not
strings).

Is there a way w/ Ruby to define a mega !=~ operator and either have it do
!~ or have it throw an exception?
Or an easy way w/ Ruby to have the parser warn about it?

Alas google is not good for searching for !=~, so apologies if this has been
previously discussed.

Thanks,
Gary

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