[ruby-talk:00579] Re: What is with `$.'?

On  7 Aug, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:00575] What is with `$.'?"
>     on 99/08/06, [e-mail] <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> |I use `$.' the first time. I use that var together with `$<'. Now I
> |find, that if I call:
> |
> |	ruby myScript.rb file1 file2 file3
> |
> |The variable `$<' will switch its name properly. But the variable `$.'
> |will not be reset during file switch. It will count up in eternity.
> 
> That's how Perl's `$.' works.  Try

I don't like a sentence like: "That's how xxxx works"! :-( I use Ruby
not xxxx :-) If you have said something like: "That is defined so", I
could agree (but then I would ask you, why? ;-))))

Ruby is not enforced to share all misbehavior of other languages ;-)

We should think about to change that behavior, or change the doc, what
do you think?

[...]

> So, you can do same thing in Ruby
> 
>   ruby -ne 'printf "%4d:%s", $., $_; $. = 0 if $<.eof?' file1 file2

That do it for me, thanks :-))))

> 
>                                                         matz.

\cle