regex into str

[Jeff Epler]

This is intended to be impossible.

Even if you could assign to str.__div__ (and this is very deliberately and
specifically disallowed) you would end up disappointed, because strings
are immutable.  That means there's nowhere to store "the last match",
no way to mutate the string with the "/=" operator, and also that the
interpreter is free to use the same storage for two equal strings.

Jeff
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