From: Charles Steinman <acharlieblue@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T05:01:10+09:00
Subject: Re: anonym variable $_ and foreach similar in Ruby ?


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?

There is also

----code---
for e in array; puts e end
----endcode---

But more logical for this purpose,  I think, is

----code---
puts array
----endcode---