[jira] Commented: (BOO-490) Doesn't get the type from .{3}\w+/.Matches(sHTML)

    [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/BOO-490?page=comments#action_46365 ] 

Doug Holton commented on BOO-490:
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I don't think Boo can infer the type of this IEnumerable unless it had an 
[EnumeratorItemType(Match)] attribute (which only Boo.Lang.dll collections do). 
 So you need the "as Match" part (later with generics you won't need this 
either):

import System.Text.RegularExpressions
sHTML="Yadada"
for m as Match in /.{3}\w+/.Matches(sHTML):
        print m.Value


The type is known from the MatchCollection indexer though, but this isn't as 
pretty code:

sHTML="Yadada"
matches = /.{3}\w+/.Matches(sHTML)
i=0
while i<matches.Count:
        print matches[i].Value
        ++i


> Doesn't get the type from .{3}\w+/.Matches(sHTML)
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: BOO-490
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/BOO-490
>      Project: Boo
>         Type: Bug
>     Versions: 0.6
>  Environment: win xp pro en with de-ch locales
>     Reporter: Philipp Knecht

>
>
> Try:
> sHTML="Yadada"
> for m  in /.{3}\w+/.Matches(sHTML):
>       print m.Value
> Will give an compiletime - error.
> But is should know the type since Matches(xyz) returns a MatchCollection

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