From: jeremy@... (Jeremy Henty)
Date: 2002-04-14T18:20:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Silence warning

In article <20020413204322.F34216@ninja1.internal>, Sean Chittenden
<sean@chittenden.org> writes:

>ARGV is a global variable that is prepopulated for you with the
>command line arguments...  why would you want to change the contents
>of that variable?

I often have cause to do that when writing Perl, because Perl has
shortcuts that treat @ARGV as a list of files.  This makes it useful
to write a BEGIN block that assigns to @ARGV or shifts flag arguments
out of @ARGV etc.  IIRC Ruby also supports these Perl-ish idioms and
BEGIN blocks, so I wouldn't be surprised to find assigning to ARGV to
be just as useful at times in Ruby.

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty 
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