From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-10-30T16:59:37+09:00
Subject: Re: String#split and capturing delimiters

Hi,

In message "Re: String#split and capturing delimiters"
    on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:45:23 +0900, Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com> writes:

|Since what version of Ruby does "String#split /(whatever)/" returns the
|delimiters in the result?

From the beginning.  It has been there at least since 0.49 back in
July 1994, which is the oldest source code available at hand, far
before the public release.

|That's exasperating. In the past I used to love Ruby. But nowadays you
|have to be a lawyer, or a historion, if you want to use it.

That's unfortunate.  I guess you've changed the attitude toward the
language, nowadays.

							matz.