From: Neil Stevens <neil@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T13:22:49+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions question

Neil Stevens wrote:
> 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.

Hold on, this wasn't really my mistake, I think.  How is one supposed to
know a dollar-sign variable isn't always global?

This sounds to me like some special-case hackery done to keep careless
coders from shooting themselves in the foot.

-- 
Neil Stevens - neil@hakubi.us

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