From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2003-12-12T04:21:59+09:00
Subject: Re: expect, rexpect and others

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:12:12 +0900, Ben Giddings wrote:
> Is there some historical reason why the result of a match is "buffer", $1, 
> $2, $3...?  To me, it would make more sense to do
 

I think $1..$9 are inspired by perl.. 


> matchdata = regexp.match(buffer)

Yes that makes much more sense.



BTW:  I am working on a regexp engine written entirely in Ruby.
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=regexp

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Simon Strandgaard