From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-12-23T07:01:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Yukihiro - Please ensure backwards compatibility

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:55:52AM +0900, John W. Long wrote:
> Alexander Kellett wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:31:53PM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan@phys.uoa.gr> wrote:
> >>   
> >>
> >>Well, for one, I think more people would expect it to be interpreted as
> >>foo.gsub(Regexp.quote(bar), ...)
> >>   
> >>
> >/me nods
> >i use this same paradigm frequently. 
> >its a bit icky for such a common action.
> > 
> >
> how about:
> 
> foo.gsub!(/#{bar}/, ...)
> 
> fairly concise.

>> bar = "."
=> "."
>> /#{bar}/.match "a"
=> #<MatchData:0x401f7d90>
>> /#{Regexp.escape(bar)}/.match "a"
=> nil

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