From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2010-01-27T05:12:22+09:00
Subject: Why does Regexp::escape backslash spaces?!?

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0]
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> Regexp::escape('a b')
=> "a\\ b"

Why?  This doesn't seem to make any sense.  Is it a bug?

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