From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2004-05-14T23:05:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp Error?

>>>>> "M" == Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> writes:

M> Does *ANY* other language that you know of have this behavior?  What 
M> advantage does it give Ruby to have it?

 My problem is to give language that *don't* have this behaviour :-)

 Not sure, but this must the difference between "modern" style (posix, v8)
 and "old" style (sed, awk) : but I know nothing in regexp

 What do you expect with ?

  /(.*).*/ =~ "abc"


Guy Decoux