From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-10T18:58:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby T-Shirt Idea

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:27:07PM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> I just thought of a dead give-away:
> 
> dcarrera ~ $ cat myfile 
> cat
> dog
> horse
> zebra
> tiger
> dcarrera ~ $ grep a myfile 
> cat
> zebra
> dcarrera ~ $ ruby -e 'puts ARGF.grep(/a/)' myfile
> cat
> zebra

Or you can use nasty perlisms:

$ ruby -ne 'print if /a/' myfile
cat
zebra

Personally I think $_ should be abolished :-)

Something that shows either the OO-nature of Ruby, or blocks/iterators in
action, has got to be a good thing.

Regards,

Brian.