From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T01:58:11+09:00
Subject: Re: named captures assigning to local variables


On Dec 20, 2007, at 10:48 AM, David Flanagan wrote:

> How about making the return value an array of the captured strings,  
> or nil if there was no match?
> Also, I suppose it should be a compile error if the regexp on the  
> left hand side does not contain any named captures.  Otherwise, =  
> becomes a variant of =~.

I rather like the consistency we now have, that the value of an  
assignment is always its RHS.


Dave