From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2008-03-11T13:45:09+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question

On Mar 10, 9:04 am, Radosław Bułat <radek.bu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Direction for Ruby future should be to clean those ugly perlism from
> Ruby (for example magic variable $_)

$_ is no more magic than ARGV.

Paul Graham's new language Arc uses _ for a similar purpose.