From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T19:28:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [bikeshed] Syntactic sugar idea


From: "Lars Christensen" <larschbelunktumdk@gmail.com>
>
> I sometimes miss Perl's $_.

Not that I'm advocating its use, but... Ruby does support $_
for perl-like command line scripting:

$ ruby -ne 'puts "dollar_underscore is: #$_"' /usr/share/dict/words | head
dollar_underscore is:
dollar_underscore is: A
dollar_underscore is: A's
dollar_underscore is: AOL
dollar_underscore is: AOL's
dollar_underscore is: Aachen
dollar_underscore is: Aachen's
dollar_underscore is: Aaliyah
dollar_underscore is: Aaliyah's
dollar_underscore is: Aaron


Regards,

Bill