From: Hirotsugu Asari <asari.ruby@...>
Date: 2009-06-21T10:56:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23954] Re: [Bug #1661](Rejected) RegExp mismatch


On Jun 20, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:31:26 +0900,
> Hirotsugu Asari wrote in [ruby-core:23942]:
>> It seems counterintuitive to me that
>>
>> Regexp.new(re,Regexp::EXTENDED).eql?(/#{re}/x)
>>
>> can be false for any string 're'.  (In this case, re="\s*")
>
> It's not the point.
> "\s*" equals to " *" but not to '\s*' (or "\\s*").
>
> -- 
> Nobu Nakada
>

Oh, I see it now.  I apologize for the noise.