From: Yusuke ENDOH <mame@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T00:27:26+09:00
Subject: Re: named captures assigning to local variables

Hi,

2007/12/20, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu>:
> > My proposal (a patch is below) is to treat named capture assignment as a
> > new form of assignment. That is: allow regexp literals as lvalues in
> > assignment.  So instead of using =~, we use =.  The match is still
> > performed with =~, but because we use the assignment operator it is
> > clear that assignment is happening.  For example:
> >
> >   /(?<firstchar>.)(?<secondchar>.)/ = 'foo'
> >   firstchar   # => 'f'
> >   secondchar  # => 'o'
>
> 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.

I prefer it too.  Matz, what do you think?

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Yusuke ENDOH <mame@tsg.ne.jp>