Re: [jruby-dev] dollar vars

2012-05-04 Thread Subramanya Sastry
Right ... I was focusing my attention only on the regexp $~ family of vars. So, your mail confirms my impression that the only way to access $~ family of vars is via Ruby code based on my first cut browse of RubyString and RubyRegexp implementations. If we do some more verification that this is a

Re: [jruby-dev] dollar vars

2012-05-04 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > I was making my case on the assumption that access to $~ is always through > Ruby code, and that if there is no reference to it in Ruby code, it is not > needed. > So I can think about this more concretely, can you give me example Ruby cod