* lib/uri/common.rb (Kernel#URI): new global method for parsing URIs.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8@6584 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/uri/common.rb b/lib/uri/common.rb
index 175ef97304..f5772084e2 100644
--- a/lib/uri/common.rb
+++ b/lib/uri/common.rb
@@ -595,3 +595,13 @@ module URI
   end
 
 end
+
+module Kernel
+  # alias for URI.parse.
+  #
+  # This method is introduced at 1.8.2.
+  def URI(uri_str) # :doc:
+    URI.parse(uri_str)
+  end
+  module_function :URI
+end