From: Neil Stevens <neil@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T13:03:15+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions question

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> Also, I believe they are thread-local variables are they not?  (I'm 
> honestly asking.)  If so, I don't see a lot of concern about them  being
> stomped on before they are used.

Actually, I just looked it up, and according to "Programming Ruby,"
$1-$9 are "local to the current scope."

My mistake, heh.  I wonder how many who use them know that, though, and
how many just do it without checking because it's popular in perl or
popular on here.

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Neil Stevens - neil@hakubi.us

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