From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-11-20T20:57:58+09:00
Subject: Re: behaviour change of String#gsub(pattern) {|m| ... } for ruby 1.9/ruby2?

Hi,

In message "behaviour change of String#gsub(pattern) {|m| ... } for ruby 1.9/ruby2?"
    on 03/11/20, David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> writes:

|String#gsub(pattern) {|m| ... }
|
|It really would be nice to get match data in 'm', but this would surely
|break _a lot_ of scripts. How about String#regsub, #regsub!, #resub, 
|#resub! ? What do others think?

Sounds nice.  The only reason for the current behavior is that sub
predates MatchData.  But we have to define migration path.

							matz.