From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-02-08T10:39:15+09:00
Subject: Re: class of $1, $2 in 1.8.0

Hi,

At Sat, 8 Feb 2003 08:15:08 +0900,
dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> To bring us back on track: what we're discussing is not whether or how
> to override methods in subclasses, but the relative merits of the two
> behaviors of Regexp#match.  Either behavior can be accomodated; I
> simply want to know the history of why the new one was chosen.

$ ruby-1.6 -e 'class S<String;end; p S.new("abc")[1..2].class'
S

$ ruby-1.6 -e 'class S<String;end; p S.new("abc")[/a/].class'
String

Just fixed inconsistency.  It might not be a bug but was an
unclarified behavior.

-- 
Nobu Nakada