From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-01-11T01:31:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01082] Re: [[:alpha:]] and its friends


In message "[ruby-talk:01080] Re: [[:alpha:]] and its friends"
    on 00/01/10, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|Are \< and \> disabled for the same reason?

No, it's because Perl's rule of regexp that all symbolic
metacharacters should be escaped by placing backslashes before them.

							matz.