From: George Ogata <g_ogata@...>
Date: 2002-07-04T04:54:15+09:00
Subject: Block with Regexp#match

Since Regexp#match so far does not use a block, why not extend it to
iterate over all the (non-overlapping) matches in the string?  I think
the following sums up what I mean:

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class Regexp
  def match(str)
    if block_given?
      str.gsub!(self) {|s| yield $~; s}
      self
    else
      old_match(str)  # the current Regexp#match
    end
  end
end
--------------------

/<(.*?)>/.match('<aaa><bbb><ccc>') {|m| puts m[1]}

....seems pretty intuitive to me.

Is this a bad idea?