From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-12-20T22:31:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Yukihiro - Please ensure backwards compatibility

Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan@phys.uoa.gr> wrote:
> I had this "problem", too. I can't see why Ruby is so verbose on that
> and doesn't interpret foo.gsub[!]("bar", ...) as foo.gsub[!](/bar/, ...) 
> automagically...

Well, for one, I think more people would expect it to be interpreted as
foo.gsub(Regexp.quote(bar), ...)

martin