On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:57:31 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave / pragprog.com> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 25, 2004, at 9:17, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 
> > No, it's *not* a regex standard. It's a Perl standard. Regex
> > "standard" is \1, \2, etc. for backreferences. Look at "ri MatchData"
> > and you'll begin to see the Object behind a Regexp result -- and
> > that's the Ruby Way to do it.
> 
> I think I'd rather phrase that as "that's _a_ Ruby way to do it." 90%
> of the time, I personally find $1 and friends far more convenient, and
> use Regexp#match only when I need the match results to be long-lived.

True enough. I personally rarely use $1 and friends, but that's just
the way that I program. Are $1 and friends being phased out over time,
though?

-austin
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