From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-07-31T00:36:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Language Q's

On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 08:55, Justin Johnson wrote:

> 1. Ruby comes with a hell of a lot of features built-in, like the Perl $
> variables and so on.  Shouldn't all this perhaps be classed as an extension?
> I kind of like the idea of a very clean and elegant language out of the box.

i think matz himself once suggested he wish he hadn't put all those perl
like constructs in there. can't remember where that was, some interview.
and i have to agree. i stay clear of them most of the time myself.
 

by the way, what is your goal with your version of ruby? i've been
considering doing some language experimentation myself using the Ruby
source.

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~transami