From: 7stud -- <lists@...>
Date: 2012-12-22T04:35:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Perl to Ruby: regex captures to assignment.

Derrick B. wrote in post #1089885:
> 7stud -- wrote in post #1089800:
>
>> See if you can make sense of this line:
>>
>> result = true ?  \ n  #your comment "true value" : "false value"
>>
>> which is equivalent to:
>>
>> result = true ?  \ n
>
> I can see that, but it is still odd.

It is not odd.  You just don't understand what escaping a newline does. 
In my code that is not a \n --- it's a \ followed by a space followed by 
an n.  That's essentially what escaping a \n does.

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