From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-08-21T07:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp: named captures


On Aug 20, 2007, at 4:13 PM, David A. Black wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Sam Smoot wrote:
>
>> Ruby doesn't have named-captures.
>
> The new regex engine, Oniguruma, does. You can install it in 1.8, and
> it's included in 1.9/2.0.

I've read about Oniguruma - is it just a different engine behind  
class Regex, and it won't change the syntax, right?

Because there's a Regexp wrapper I'm writing (with much help from  
Robert Klemme) that uses Regex as the base, and all of the current  
syntax.

~ Ari
English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a  
bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.