From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-07-09T09:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: String#split converts string args to regexes -- ?

David Alan Black wrote:
> I would certainly advocate making it consistent: split(/re/) or
> split("string"), leaving the choice to the programmer and not doing
> any automatic conversion of strings.

For consistency, what about gsub('string') and gsub(/re/) ? The former 
also converts to regex.