From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-12T12:25:33+09:00
Subject: Another suggestion for FreeRIDE

Based on some discussions over at comp.lang.python...

Someone raised the issue of Ruby's borrowing the predefined variables like 
$:, $!, $? and their ilk from Perl.  I suggested that you can require 
english.rb so that you can use more comprehensible names for these 
variables.  The Python person objected saying that he didn't like the fact 
that someone else might use the unreadable ones in code that he might have 
to read.

Which gave me an idea:  What if you have an optional setting in FreeRIDE 
so that if you read in a file with the unreadable predefined variables they get 
automatically replaced with their equivilents defined in english.rb (and 
the line: 'require "english.rb"' get's appended to the top of the file).  
That way if you don't want to deal with looking up the various unreadable 
(incomprehensible) predefined vars.

Phil