From: Neil Stevens <neil@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T12:42:39+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions question

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> I see a lot of code running the Ruby Quiz and I feel quite confident 
> saying that the Regexp variables are far more common than MatchData.   I
> don't think that says anything bad about the latter, but it does  tell
> me that you are in the minority.  ;)

If the majority here uses globally scoped variables to store locally
used values,  then that doesn't say anything good for this portion of
the Ruby community.

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Neil Stevens - neil@hakubi.us

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