From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T18:52:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Should String#strip take a parameter?

Bj?rn Lindstr?m <bkhl@privat.utfors.se> wrote:
> Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>> Treating a string as a character class is not convenient enough to
>> justify its limitingness.
> 
> Couldn't you just support both. That is, the argument could be either a
> string or a RegExp.

My argument was that if the parameter is regexp oriented, it makes more
sense for a string to match itself than "any of its characters".

martin