From ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org Fri Dec 16 02:03:24 2005 Received: from kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp (kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.2.24]) by blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id jBFH3OZk028665; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:03:24 +0900 Received: from funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.2.201]) by kankan.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30187597F; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:03:29 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (localhost.nagaokaut.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33E6F04842; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:03:29 +0900 (JST) Received: from voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp (voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp [133.44.1.100]) by funfun.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92CA3F04846; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:03:28 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [210.163.138.100]) by voscc.nagaokaut.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC3C63002B; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:03:27 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8289833D7E; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:02:37 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A6133D09 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:02:15 +0900 (JST) Received: from beryllium.ruby-lang.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beryllium.ruby-lang.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05357-07 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:02:15 +0900 (JST) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by beryllium.ruby-lang.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D4F33D9B for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:02:14 +0900 (JST) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z6so450274nzd for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:02:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.13.27 with SMTP id q27mr2113622nzi; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:02:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilith.local ( [84.157.5.7]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 19sm3166890nzp.2005.12.15.09.02.08; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:02:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by lilith.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id C2A0F4A6C80; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:02:06 +0100 (CET) Delivered-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:02:15 +0900 Posted: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:02:05 +0100 From: Christian Neukirchen Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org Subject: Re: regular expressions question To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: (Neil Stevens's message of "Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:22:39 +0900") References: <1134594056.651873.15620@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1134597567.426280.11150@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1134609794.742915.20700@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> X-ML-Name: ruby-talk X-Mail-Count: 67 X-MLServer: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)]; post only (only members can post) X-ML-Info: If you have a question, send e-mail with the body "help" (without quotes) to the address ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org; help= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) X-Original-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:to:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=Dh6xO18izpqhlw/eCp8TYFHiTUPQ9DuI98u6CGgUda8jLFZvTxLz20jZZUkMYpW0dS9CSxswmR+cAcgKR/JiNhthijUGb9hjyuDANG615uKOhp3TSGH6AqUtZ9nPAqD2holrvACWth1hP3x+8tfughcrTjMAYYuG/z8LHY5rqEM= X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ruby-lang.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on beryllium.ruby-lang.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-14.1 required=7.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BLARS00, BLARS_SPAM00,CONTENT_TYPE_PRESENT,QENCPTR2,RCVDFRMLOCALIP,RCVD_BY_IP, RCVD_IN_BLARS,RCVD_IN_BLARS_HOOPS,RCVD_IN_BLARS_SPAM autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Precedence: bulk Lines: 20 List-Id: ruby-talk.ruby-lang.org List-Software: fml [fml 4.0.3 release (20011202/4.0.3)] List-Post: List-Owner: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 Neil Stevens writes: > William James wrote: >> Ross, don't pay too much attention to unreasonable fanatics. >> >> The first edition of the Pickaxe says: >> >> "Having said all this, we have to 'fess up. Andy and Dave normally >> use the $-variables rather than worrying about MatchData objects. >> For everyday use, they just end up being more convenient. >> Sometimes we just can't help being pragmatic." > > How convenient that you quote that without quoting the drawbacks listed > first... Which drawbacks? > Neil Stevens - neil@hakubi.us -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org