From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-09-20T10:18:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on improving usage of Regexp#match

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:47:34AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
>   class Regexp
>     alias :oldmatch :match
>   
>     def match(str)
>       result = self.oldmatch(str)
>       if not result
>         null = /x/.match("x") # No new
>         def null.[](index); nil; end
>         result = null
>       end
>       result
>     end
>   end

This will break the following code:
  foo = "this is a test"
  r = /^this will not match$/
  if not r.match(foo) then
    puts "did not match"
  end

Paul