From: WATANABE Hirofumi Date: 2003-06-27T13:42:59+09:00 Subject: Re: why can't I use $3somevar for global variable in ruby 1.8.0? Hi, Donglai Gong writes: > There must be a reason why $1ve is disallowed in 1.8.0 but I can't > imagine why. Anyone knows the reason behind this change? [ruby-core:00945] [ruby-core:00949] -- eban