From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T03:02:22+09:00
Subject: Re: What attracts me to Ruby

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, MikkelFJ wrote:

> The $ syntax is widely recognized to be a mistake - it helps Perlers
> intially but it doesn't bring anything to the table you couldn't express
> easily in a cleaner syntax. I think it is fair to say that it is considered
> bad form to use $ in Ruby code, but then I guess many have just gotten used
> to it.

I've often wondered if there was a good alternative to using $1, $2, $3, 
etc. to pull stuff out of a string that has been matched with a regular 
expression.  Ideas?

-- Matt

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