From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
Date: 2010-09-04T01:38:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32044] suggestion: not use multi-line mode by default

It is a bit confusing that Ruby's regex's use "quasi" multi-line mode
by default.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3632024/why-do-rubys-regular-expressions-use-a-and-z-instead-of-and
http://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html

Might be nice to deprecate that, since by default '.' doesn't match
"\n" anyway, why not have it single line mode by default?
Or perhaps it's an old question.
Anyway just had to scratch my itch there.
Thanks!
-r