From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-03-28T18:00:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question:Does Ruby have the structure of hash's array like Perl does?

> it seem that $" in ruby represents sth else, because irb produces:
> >> $"
> => ["irb.rb", "e2mmap.rb", "irb/init.rb", "irb/context.rb", 
> "irb/extend-command.rb", "irb/workspace.rb", "irb/ruby-lex.rb"
> , "irb/slex.rb", "irb/ruby-token.rb", "irb/input-method.rb", 
> "irb/locale.rb", "tempfile.rb", "delegate.rb"]

Well, Brian just answered this question for us (thanks Brian).
Ruby uses $, whereas Perl uses $, or $" depending on whether you are 
printing or joining an array.

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Daniel Carrera
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