From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-09-22T00:33:54+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR: New interpreter switch

On Sunday, September 21, 2003, 11:46:33 PM, Martin wrote:

> One place where perl's heavy use of implicit variables scores is in
> quick one-liners from the command prompt. I think ruby would be more
> appealing in that area if it had a switch that ran the following loop:

> while gets
>   print $_.instance_eval {
>     ...
>   }
> end

> This would generalise the existing technique of mixing a few String
> methods like gsub and scan into Kernel and having them act implicitly on
> $_.


An alternative would be to create a file that adds all the methods you
want to Kernel, and require that on the command line.  Just a thought.

Gavin