Uri Guttman asked:
> now, why does $0.{comment} refer to the internal regex and not the outer
> one?
Technically, $0 refers to the *match object* of the inner regex, not the inner regex
itself.
> is it because of it being in the closure?
Yes. And because $0 is lexically scoped.
> could yo
like many of you i am fascinated by A5 but also my brain is overwhelmed
by it. i love that /x is the default but i would ask all of you to use
those comments liberally, even with trivial regexes while we all learn
this stuff. even simple ones are tricky looking if you don't grok the
syntax and se
