On Nov 5, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Roger Pack wrote: > > I wonder if that fact that regex's always with have two /'s might > help... > probably not - unless you wanted to introduce ';'s to ruby too: cfp:~ > cat a.rb x = 1 result = x / 4 * 2 / 42 p result def x(*re) 'forty-two' end result = x / 4 * 2 / 42 p result result = x(/ 4 * 2 /) 42 p result cfp:~ > ruby a.rb 0 0 "forty-two" a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- share your knowledge. it's a way to achieve immortality. h.h. the 14th dalai lama