From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T02:39:52+09:00
Subject: Re: $& write-protected?

> If you update $~ (the match result), $&, $1, etc. would follow
> accordingly.  So that the better RCR should be to create MatchData
> without built-in regular expression match, I think.

Here, here!

I was trying to add some features to the regex engine and couldn't for
similar reasons.  (I was trying to leverage the built-in syntax for
regexes, but to match against tree-shaped structures... Don't ask.)

I eventually gave up because I couldn't create MatchData.

Ari