From: Charles Oliver Nutter Date: 2007-12-22T09:04:49+09:00 Subject: Re: named captures assigning to local variables David Flanagan wrote: > But I might also advocate for dropping both the = and =~ syntaxes for > now and thinking about this some more for Ruby 2.0 Here here! This seems like a bad time to be trying to jam a few features in, and nobody would miss if it it were delayed a bit to "get it right." There seems to be enough confusion and differing opinion on this one to warrant removing it from 1.9.1 and thinking more about it. - Charlie