From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-03-19T06:18:52-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02023] Re: Ruby Syntax similar to other languages?

"Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes:

> > Hmm, although I think options i, s, m, o, and x should belong to
> > regexp, I can understand your opinion.
> 
> Could g belong to regexp as well?

If 'g' was an attribute of Regexp, then what would

    line =~ /asdf/g

mean?

You know, I've been using Perl for years, and awj before that. I must
have written thousands if pattern matches. And I can't think of a
single case where I've needed to change a match from 'once' to
'global' at runtime. So I'm wondering: what are we discussing here?

Sorry to be dense.

Dave