From: "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T03:26:16+09:00
Subject: Re: What attracts me to Ruby

I've had the same question.  It just seems really convenient to have
those there, but it doesn't seem very ruby-like at the same time.

-Kurt

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 03:02:22AM +0900, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> >From my heart and from my hand, why don't people understand my intention?
> 
> 
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