From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T04:54:26+09:00
Subject: Re: anonym variable $_ and foreach similar in Ruby ?

On Aug 10, 2005, at 2:46 PM, ngoc wrote:

> Hi
> In perl
> print $_, "\n" foreach (@array);
> In Ruby
> array.each { |e| print e, "\n" }
> or
> array.each do |e| print e, "\n" end
>
> So |e| is similar to $_. But I can not
> say
> { |e| print e, "\n"} array.each
>
> because of block as argument and OO issue. In addition, it looks a  
> little bit complicated in Ruby. I think in THIS CASE perl is more  
> elegant than Ruby?
>
> Is it a right thinking (IN THIS CASE)?
> Are there other ways than those two array.each?

Or:

array.each { |e| puts e }

Or just:

puts array

I like that better than Perl, but you decide...  ;)

James Edward Gray II