From: Jeremy Stephens <jeremy.stephens@...>
Date: 2007-11-14T23:48:00+09:00
Subject: Re: can't modify literal regexp: why?

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:56:12 +0900,
> Jeremy Stephens wrote in [ruby-talk:278872]:
>> 
>> Regexp.new(/blah/).clone is perfectly OK.  What's insecure about cloning
>> a literal regex?
> 
> It is to prohibit /blah/.initialize_copy(/foobar/).  You may
> know, /blah/.dup works.

Thanks for the info.  Anyone know _why_ it's prohibited?  Just curious.
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