From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-11-11T00:02:04+09:00
Subject: Re: camelize

Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
> Marnen,
> 
> MLK> It makes the regex case-insensitive.
> 
> MLK> If you're asking that kind of question, you need to go read 
> Programming
> MLK> Ruby.
> 
> It's on my desk and I am constantly reading it.  I could not, and
> still cannot, find where that is defined.

In the section on regular expressions, IIRC.

> 
> This is probably the 20th regular expression syntax that I have had to
> learn.  It gets old.

/i is the same in Perl, and in most other regex syntaxes like it.

Anyway, if you're going to use a language, you need to learn the syntax 
-- no excuses.  Sure it gets old, but so does using an out-of-date 
language because you didn't bother to learn a new one. :)

> 
> Ralph

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