From: mental@...
Date: 2005-12-16T01:27:09+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions question

Quoting Neil Stevens <neil@hakubi.us>:

> If the majority here uses globally scoped variables to store
> locally used values,  then that doesn't say anything good for
> this portion of the Ruby community.

Were you aware that $1 and friends aren't actually globally scoped?

-mental