[ruby-core:93871] [Ruby master Feature#10123] Named capture groups don't set local vars when matched using ~

Issue #10123 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans).

Backport deleted (2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN)
ruby -v deleted (ruby 2.1.1p76 (2014-02-24 revision 45161) [x86_64-darwin13.0])
Tracker changed from Bug to Feature

Looking at the documentation for Regexp#=~ as well as the Capture section of the Regexp class documentation, both of which describe assignment of named captures to local variables, it seems intentional that only the `/(?<some>re)/ =~ string` case sets local variables.  Even the `string =~ /(?<some>re)/` case does not set them.  So I think this should be considered a feature request.

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Feature #10123: Named capture groups don't set local vars when matched using ~
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10123#change-79819

* Author: josh.cheek (Josh Cheek)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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Broken when using `~`:

~~~
$ echo ' josh' | ruby -ne '~/(?<initial>\w)/ and puts initial'
-e:1:in `<main>': undefined local variable or method `initial' for main:Object (NameError)
~~~

Working when using `=~ $_`:

~~~
$ echo ' josh' | ruby -ne '/(?<initial>\w)/ =~ $_ and puts initial'
j
~~~



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