From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-09T09:06:59+09:00
Subject: Re: =~ obsolete?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng" <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: =~ obsolete?


> On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Dave Brown wrote:
>
> > In article <oprtlut5x0edtuaz@news.tuwien.ac.at>,
> > meinrad.recheis <my.name.here@gmx.at> wrote:
>         [...]
> > : ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:28: warning: string =~ string will be
obsolete;
> > : use explicit regexp
> > :
> > : why??
> >
> > It's string =~ string which is being obsoleted.  If you need to
>
> That's "why the error message?". What about "Why will it be
> obsolete?"?

Can't answer that...

Why do you need or want string-string as opposed
to string-regex? Not a flame, just a question.

Hal

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