From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2013-09-27T01:51:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:57407] Re: [Backport 200 - Backport #8953] `str =~ /pattern/` does not call =~ method if (1) str is a String, (2) /pattern/ is a Regexp literal

2013/9/27 ko1 (Koichi Sasada) <redmine@ruby-lang.org>:
> Issue #8953 has been updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada).

> And all of versions ignore the redefinition.
> I implemented 1.9 VM as this behaviour because I think it is spec.

I also think so.
The spec is one of the reason Ruby can assign named capture to local variable.

% ruby -e '/def(?<var>.*)/ =~ "abcdefghi"; p var'
"ghi"
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Tanaka Akira