From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2007-12-20T15:48:23+09:00
Subject: Re: named captures assigning to local variables

In article <476A0D80.8050505@path.berkeley.edu>,
  Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> writes:

> Very nice. Since = is not an operator (and not a method), a certain 
> amount of magic is acceptable (to me). Methods should just be methods.

=~ has some magic already.  It is not redefinable for regexp
literals.

% ./ruby -e '
class Regexp
  def =~
    p :called
  end
end
p /b/ =~ "abc"
'
1
% ./ruby -v
ruby 1.9.0 (2007-12-20 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux]
-- 
Tanaka Akira