From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-11-30T23:49:39+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In message "Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?"
>    on 03/11/30, Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>|Ack, no more:
>|
>|if (/foo/ .. /bar/)   ?
>|
>|I find this construct terribly useful; I'd hate to see it go.
>
>Perhaps some other way to accomplish, for example,
>
>  IO#from_to(re1, re2) {|line| ... }
>
>just an idea.
>
>  
>

That would work for the IO case, but I have used many times the ".." as 
a flip-flop NOT relating to lines matching a regex.

I think this is not the best thing for consideration of removal; I 
haven't seen yet anyone get confused over it.