From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-03-26T02:24:29+09:00
Subject: Re: GString and XSS (Re: groovy)

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:29:06 +0000, gabriele renzi wrote:
> il Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:48:29 +0900, Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org> ha
> scritto::
> 
>>> BTW: Why is 'm' of class String.  It would be nice if it were
>>> an instance of MatchData.  If it had been a MatchData object,
>>> then the following piece would have worked.
>>>
>>> str.gsub!(/(\s\w)(\w+)(\w\s)/) do |m|
>>>     m[3] + m[2] + m[1]
>>> end
> 
> following suggestion from flgr on #ruby-lang it would be nice to have 
> gsub yielding a MatchData with to_str defined to still allow stuff
> like
> 
> str.gsub(rgx) do |m|
>  'str'+m
> end


Agree.  Has this been submitted as an RCR before?

If not, it may be a good candidate for an RCR.

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Simon Strandgaard