Meeting some Locals

There are two very different ways to create local variables in Ruby. You are probably familiar with the classical way: a, b = "$", "€" a # => "$" b # => "€" It is simple to understand and looks good. But Ruby would not be Ruby, if there weren't for more obscure ways to assign variables: You could rewrite the previous example to create local variables in a more subtle way: %r<(?'a'.)(?'b'.)>=~"$" "€" a # => "$" b # => "€" Implicit Local Variables Through Regex Matching Without the fancy obfusc...

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