From: David Garamond <davegaramond@...>
Date: 2002-10-07T22:59:52+09:00
Subject: Regexp.MULTILINE

while we're still on it, i wonder whose decision it is to remove perl's 
dual //s + //m modifiers and just adopt //s (that is, "." will match a 
newline) and treat ^ & $ line-wise regardless of the modifiers. was it 
matz's? i think this is a fine design decision, since many people have 
trouble understanding //s and //m.

but i wonder why the chosen name is MULTILINE (//m) instead of 
SINGLELINE (//s), and moreover why doesn't ruby complain when i give an 
s modifier. this has bitten me a couple of times in the past, since i 
often use the s modifier in my perl regexes. i believe many perl 
programmers were/will be bitten by this one.

-- 
dave