From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-06-04T18:45:25+09:00
Subject: Re: No way of looking for a regrexp match starting from a particular   point in a string?

On 04.06.2007 00:44, Kenneth McDonald wrote:
> Is $~ thread safe?

Yes.

> To bad it has to be done this way (though my library will hide it). I 
> first looked at Ruby several years ago, and at that time, didn't go 
> further with it because it was too PERLish for me. (PERL was great for 
> its time, but speaking as someone who actually had to maintain a lot of 
> PERL code, it's actually a pretty grotty language). One of the things 
> that brought me back to Ruby was the fact that an effort was being made 
> to move Ruby away from its PERLisms. But I guess it'll take a while 
> longer...
> 
> Thanks everyone,

Ken, I still don't understand why exactly you need MatchData objects. 
What are you trying to achieve?

Kind regards

	robert