From: Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>
Date: 2011-10-08T02:33:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40030] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5400][Open] Remove flip-flops in 2.0

On Tue Oct 04 2011 @  4:43, Magnus Holm wrote:
> Nobody knows them. Nobody uses them. Let's just get rid of flip-flops,
> shall we?

As someone who came to Ruby from Perl, I also use/like the flip-flop
operator.

Having said that, maybe a better question than "Who likes the feature?" or
"Who doesn't?" is "What's bad enough about flip-flop that merits removal?"
Does it cause some performance problem or lead to wrongheaded programming?
(Not rhetorical: I genuinely don't see what would make it worth removing.)

Thanks, Peter
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