hmdne

This is finished now and ready for review.

#2235 would fix this issue... partially. We also now default to thinking that strings are by default encoded with UTF-8. At now the climate to add too much encoding support...

Ah, it got fixed by #2357 :)

Moving to v1.7 (or v2.0)

> It looks like double edged sword. Trading simplicity for safety. > > Maybe it's worth it, having `$xxx` on native objects like `String` is not good... yet it's kinda...

Despite having #2446 which has updated delegator to MRI's version, this issue still persist. Though, MRI changed to returning: ``` Bar Baz ```

The main idea I have regarding this issue, which I hope I will be able to implement, is as follows: - For Opal 2.0, deprecate the backtick operator (except if...

The performance impact must be investigated.

The third iteration of this patch fixes a problem where a regexp like `[^a]` would be treated as containing `^` assertion.

Yes @takaram, I was also mistaken about this in the first version of the post. Later I edited it to clarify. But I wasn't aware of the JS `s` flag....