From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-06-04T20:47:08+09:00
Subject: Re: No way of looking for a regrexp match starting from a particular point in a string?

Hi --

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Kenneth McDonald wrote:

> Is $~ thread safe?
>
> 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...

The best thing is really just to use Ruby without thinking about Perl.
They're very different languages, and get mentioned in the same breath
far too often.


David

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