From: markus jais Date: 2001-07-27T05:50:22+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:18597] Re: ruby versus Perl Magic On Thursday 26 July 2001 19:18, you wrote: > Hi, > > In message "[ruby-talk:18573] ruby versus Perl Magic" > > on 01/07/27, markus jais 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. This is what I thought too. Thanks for your answer. After thinking a little bit about it, I like the Ruby way much more (as with all things with Ruby) markus > > matz. -- Markus Jais http://www.mjais.de info@mjais.de The road goes ever on and on - Bilbo Baggins