From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-06-14T23:32:15+09:00
Subject: Re: UNIX pipes

On 2002.06.14, David Douthitt <DDouthitt@cuna.coop> wrote:
> Ruby's gsub(pat, str) form never felt "right" - I kept wanting
> s/pat1/pat2/ - and why not?  I really am curious...
> 
> Instead of:
> 
> "My string".gsub(/My/, "His")
> 
> ...why not?
> 
> "My string".s/My/His/

Too much syntactic sugar will give you syntactic cavities.

This might be possible (but not implemented, AFAIK):

str = "My string".s /My/ /His/

But then, that's close enough to:

str = "My string".gsub /My/ "His"

I do wish that the more natural s/pat/pat/mod syntax could
be used in Ruby, but it's not a big deal.

-- Dossy

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