From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-11-09T11:03:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Lighting Rod

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yohanes Santoso" <ysantoso@jenny-gnome.dyndns.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Lighting Rod


> > 1) Why magic variables?
> 
> Um... beneficial crufts? I think because they are already idioms.
> I don't even know the other name for $? (check return status).

They're only idioms if you're used to Perl.

Personally, I don't like them and avoid
using them.

Note that they hardly appear at all in _The
Ruby Way_.

Hal