From: Thien Vuong <tvuong@...>
Date: 2003-12-01T18:32:34+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?



Michael Campbell wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
I concur with this opinion.  Also, I sometimes uses multiple pattern 
ranges in a scan loop so not sure if the IO#from_to would be able to do 
the same.  I never need this functionality before until learned from 
PERL and it made lots of text scanning code simpler by not having to
maintain state variables.
>