From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2001-06-04T23:00:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16202] Re: (?i:) in regexp

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:48:14AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Last time I checked, Perl regex engine was tied closely to the
> interpreter, that I had to link whole thing to Ruby.  Has situation
> changed since then?

I don't know.  I only touched Perl when I had to, and now that I have
Ruby, I don't.

> Plus, PCRE didn't satisfy my needs (performance, M17N, etc.)

Good reasons.  I just thought that it might be easier to maintain a merge
than maintaining a seperate code base with the same functionality.

--- SER