From: Jos Backus <josb@...>
Date: 2001-11-24T12:32:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26290] Re: List of methods that can implicitly act on $_ ?

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 01:09:36AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> OK, You know I discourage this idiom.  Don't use them.
> If you don't use them, you don't need the list.

Fair enough. I agree that it's bad idiom.

> But here is the list, for your information:
> 
>  sub, gsub, chop, chomp
> 
> and their correspongind bang methods, and
> 
>  split, scan

Thanks, I was just curious. Maybe a later version should drop support for the
implicit $_ object?

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