From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2003-12-01T00:59:50+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.
>							matz.
>  
>
I frequently have the need for a "between" operator, and it's quite 
convenient to have it built into the language in such a flexible way.  
OTOH, I don't know what the costs are.  OTOH, if you are only discussing 
the removal of pattern ranges...well, I use that much less often, but 
it's certainly more legible than any replacement that I can think of.  
(And the from_to operator would seem to need to be a component of 
Iterator rather than IO.)