From: David Alan Black Date: 2001-11-24T23:11:08+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:26326] Re: List of methods that can implicitly act on $_ ? Hello -- On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > Hi, > > In message "[ruby-talk:26290] Re: List of methods that can implicitly act on $_ ?" > on 01/11/24, Jos Backus writes: > > |Thanks, I was just curious. Maybe a later version should drop support for the > |implicit $_ object? > > I've not decided yet. But I can tell you the future version will give > you warning when you use it -- "it's too perlish". Hmmmm.... maybe you can find a diplomatic way to say it, like "legacy construct" :-) Of course, in a sense, having a warning *is* dropping support for it, at least for those of us who don't like getting warnings. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav