Ari Brown
8/20/2007 10:00:00 PM
On Aug 20, 2007, at 4:13 PM, David A. Black wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Sam Smoot wrote:
>
>> Ruby doesn't have named-captures.
>
> The new regex engine, Oniguruma, does. You can install it in 1.8, and
> it's included in 1.9/2.0.
I've read about Oniguruma - is it just a different engine behind
class Regex, and it won't change the syntax, right?
Because there's a Regexp wrapper I'm writing (with much help from
Robert Klemme) that uses Regex as the base, and all of the current
syntax.
~ Ari
English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a
bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.