From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-12-20T00:03:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28931] Re: What's the Ruby way of doing:

In article <3c20319c$0$23431$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
Nightblade <nightblade@no.spam.thanks.com> wrote:
>
>I'm new to Ruby, so please don't shout.  :-)  I used to really like doing
>these kind of things in Perl:  (example in metacode)

BTW: this will work in Ruby, just as you have it here: 
>
>  $debug and print "some kind of message"
>
>and:
>

This one won't work( but see my previous reply for an alternative):
>  unless $quiet print "extra info here"

Phil