From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-05-29T18:14:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Introducing the "it" keyword

Hi --

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Michael W. Ryder wrote:

> How about something like: return $1 if (v + 1) < 10 if you wanted to return v 
> + 1?  If you wanted to return v you could use: return $2 if ((v) +1) < 10. 
> Improvements would be using some of the regular expression flags to control 
> what $1, $2, etc. refer to.

But $1, $2, ... are already taken.  What would happen here, for
example?

   return $1 if /(abc)/.match("abc")


David

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