From: Mike Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-05-13T07:56:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp: why does (re)* return only last repetition?

> It's the patttern specified specifically: "[a-z\\]". So far as I can
> tell, the backslash is being interpolated twice (once by String#new
> and once by Regexp#new). Is this a bug? I'm not sure, but I think
> so; it doesn't do it twice with "[\\a-z]", "[a-z\\\]", or
> "[a-z\\\\]".


Is this with 1.8?    I thought I remembered a thread about some new character
class "warnings" code that do all sorts of weird unusual things that the pre 1.8
versions didn't have.