From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <jeffp@...>
Date: 2002-02-07T07:02:57+09:00
Subject: RE: Regexp::Parser ported to Ruby...?

On Feb 6, Jack Dempsey said:

>anyone know if using $& in ruby gives the same penalty as in perl?

No, it doesn't -- that's one of their strong points.  I believe Ruby uses
copy-on-write, so $& actually refers to the string matched against, until
that string changes.

[Jack:  Georgetown, eh?  My girlfriend goes to Georgetown.]

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** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
<stu> what does y/// stand for?  <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.