From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2002-12-01T07:00:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Scope of regex match $variables

Paul Melis <paul@floorball.nl> wrote:
> "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:NX3G9.135966$ka.3103955@news1.calgary.shaw.ca...
>> Yeah, but I can't figure out a way to make them local to the calling
>> scope, the way an actual Regexp#match call would.
> 
> Why not simply return the MatchData object from your function?

I do, but I thought it'd be nice to have the $n variables set as well. I
suppose one *shouldn't* be allowed to implicitly set variables in the
calling scope, though, now that I think about it.

martin