From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-12-20T12:31:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Alternate Regular Expressions?

>> rather
>> the inability to easily compose small REs into larger REs. Which is why 
>> so many programs end
>> up with huge, unreadable REs. As a small example, it's really nice (and 
>> obvious) to be able to say
>> 
>>    re3 = re1 + re2
> 
> I agree with this and that's why I have the following add-on in my
> standard lib:
> 
> class Regexp
>    def +(other_regex)
>    ...
>    end
> end

Note also that you can do

re3 = /#{re1}#{re2}/ which fits my needs pretty well.

-r
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