From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-12-23T10:44:43+09:00
Subject: Re: String.strip( string_to_strip )

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 05:53:23 +0900, Albert Chou wrote:
> Thanks for the critique, Austin.  Nice code.  I also came across a thread
> from July on the same subject (while searching for something completely
> unrelated, isn't that always the way? <g>), so sorry for the duplication.
>  I am wondering whether the regexp anchors could/should be \A, \Z instead
> of ^, $ ....

Oh, probably. I'm sort of hoping that Ruby regexen will be simplified the 
way that Perl 6 regexen will be simplified for Ruby2. I should probably 
write up an RCR for that. I especially like the distinction of ^ for the 
beginning of line and ^^ for absolute beginning of string...

-austin
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