From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2002-12-05T17:33:27+09:00
Subject: Re: elseif?

Iain 'Spoon' Truskett <spoon@dellah.org> wrote:
> One reason I've not bothered looking at the xregex package someone
> posted was because it uses strings rather than regexes. I'd much rather
> see xregex posted as a patch to the ruby sources to improve all regexen.

I might look at that once the feature list is finalised, though I'm
uncomfortable patching the Ruby source. I'd much rather keep it pure
Ruby. I agree, though, that having to use strings is a very annoying
feature.

martin