From: Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>
Date: 2005-03-16T03:06:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with aliasing String#index


>> To fully duplicate the functionality of the built-in String#index I 
>> need to transfer $~ from the local scope to the enclosing scope. Is 
>> there any way of doing this?
>
>
> There's a solution in the ruby-talk:79283 thread that was posted by 
> matz, but it's not thread safe. It would be wonderful if we could have 
> a proper way of doing this...

Ah... interesting... but that technique doesn't really work with 
String#index, since String#index doesn't take a block.

I think I just have to resign from the idea of making a completely 
transparent String wrapper.

But it would be nice if this was resolved. In principle, I think it 
should be possible to do the same things from Ruby as from C. I.e. if C 
can set a variable $~ in the caller's scope, it should be possible to do 
that from Ruby as well.

// Niklas