From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-08-19T20:56:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs Ruby!

On Friday 19 August 2005 07:33 am, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> I've been programming in Ruby for a while now, and I only know the
> meanings of $1..$9, $0 (use it all the time -- there's no other
> option, as far as I know), $! and $? (only because of shell
> programming) and $: (but I usually use $LOAD_PATH). The only one
> you'll typically see in my code is $0. And that only for command-line
> utility runners.

I will tend to use $: for one-off scripts because I can never remember if it 
is $LOAD_PATH or $LOADPATH.  Other than that, I'm with you.

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