From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2003-08-09T10:30:11+09:00
Subject: Re: =~ obsolete?

On 2003-08-09 09:54:36 +0900, Martin Weber wrote:
> Iiiiii know, the question was why would you come to the idea of trying
> to use a string on the right hand side. Next. throw 'hint'.

I think this behaviour was stolen from Perl. Perl is cluttered with
special syntax magic like this. That makes it really hard to learn
what's going on. I like Ruby's =~ operator better than Perl's because I
tended to swap both sides while coding and used /foo/ =~ "bar". Ruby's
=~ is commutative (with the striing exception), so it doesn't matter
anymore. ;)

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