From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-08-11T10:06:11+09:00
Subject: Re: anonym variable $_ and foreach similar in Ruby ?

In article <1123703873.374539.125830@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Charles Steinman <acharlieblue@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>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---
>
>

and for the original poster who seemed to prefer:


  print $_, "\n" foreach (@array);

(for whatever reason)

He could even say:

  puts for item in array; end

If he really wanted to ;-)

....of course it would be much shorter to just say:
  
  puts array 


Phil