From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-07-27T02:18:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18579] Re: ruby versus Perl Magic

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:18573] ruby versus Perl Magic"
    on 01/07/27, markus jais <info@mjais.de> writes:

|I think that this is not possible in Ruby, and Matz had good reasons for
| this. Because I am neither a Perl nor a Ruby guru (yet), I would like to
|hear the reason for this.

Ruby had this magic too in ancient time.  I removed it because it
often hid type mismatch error.

							matz.