From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2010-03-04T19:52:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28464] Re: [Feature #2759] Regexp /g and /G options

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Vincent Isambart wrote:

> > The objections to this feature amounted to "it's complicated for users to understand and no-one needs it". Which would be a perfectly valid justification if true, but clearly Michael does need it, and has been willing to argue extensively for it. In short, there are compelling reasons to accept this feature, and very little reason to reject it.
> 
> A language cannot and should not implement all features request asked
> by users. It would only end up in feature bloat.
> 
As a general principle, that is correct (see for example, Lua).
My understanding is that this is a request for the complete implementation
of an existing feature, i.e Onigoruma.  As far as I can see pcre
does implement this
http://manpages.courier-mta.org/htmlman3/pcresyntax.3.html

Apparently PHP 5 has Oniguruma, but I can't see if it implements this
or not, but my blunt use of Google suggests it uses pcre to do this.

        Hugh