From: Nikolai Weibull <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-09-23T05:10:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp Arity

* trans.  (T. Onoma) <transami@runbox.com> [Sep 22, 2004 21:50]:
> > Perhaps we could use Regexp#length to mirror MatchData#length.

> At first I didn't like, but actually that could work, okay.

Absolutely not.  The length of a regular expression has nothing to do
with the number of grouped subexpressions.  The correlation between
MatchData and Regexp is flawed.  A MatchData could be seen as an array,
but a Regexp can hardly be seen as such.
	nikolai

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