(?{ code }) feature. I want it in
other
languages.
I spent some time on hacking this into ruby a few weeks ago. I finally got around to making patches.
In FreeBSD ports, I select to build Ruby 1.8.6 with oniguruma for the regex engine. After doing 'make configure' you can apply these patches:
I haven't tested this on other platforms, and it's not feature complete, but it's close.