From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T06:33:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23538] Re: O'Reilly site has "An Introduction to Ruby"article

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From: Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:17 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:23413] Re: O'Reilly site has "An Introduction to
Ruby"article


> Personally I don't like the "Ruby as better Perl" idea (I'd rather not
> have the cryptic $_ etc) but maybe its the way to go to win people
> over. I'm not sure.

I've always had a moderate dislike for the
"line noise" variables also... but in my case
it's partly because my Perl is weak.

In any case, I don't think I've ever found a case
where it was absolutely necessary to use one
of these variables.

Hal