From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2010-03-05T11:58:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28494] Re: [Feature #2759] Regexp /g and /G options

On 3/4/10, NARUSE, Yui <naruse@airemix.jp> wrote:
> (2010/03/04 14:53), caleb clausen wrote:
>> It appears there is a patch already.
>
> Do you really know how the patch is?

No. Michael referred to a discussion on the japanese ML and said there
was a patch in it. As I can't understand japanese, I didn't try to
look into it further. Yusuke Endoh said:

> The reason why Ruby flavor disabled ONIG_OPTION_CAPTURE_GROUP seems:
>
>  - ONIG_OPTION_CAPTURE_GROUP is not easy to understand (even Kosako said)
>  - using both named and unnamed capture at the time is considered as bad
>    and confusing style in Ruby
>  - when it was discussed, there was no compatibility issue because there
>    was no oniguruma gem

I don't know if he was referring to that specific patch or not. I
summarized this as:

>> The objections to this feature amounted to "it's complicated for
>> users to understand and no-one needs it".

Is my summary a mischaracterization? Are there objections to the patch
beyond those above?