From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-11-30T04:27:11+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

In article <1070125296.186134.15652.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>,
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In message "anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?"
>    on 03/11/29, "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:
>
>|Is anything disappearing from Ruby in 2.0?  Not that I have a very big
>|list of things I want removed :-) but I'm wondering, for example,
>|about the Perl-like special variables.  And just wondering generally
>|if there's anything in that category.
>
>Candidates are:
>
>  * ../... in condition
>  * regex literal in condition

Why these two?  So you mean that we could no longer say:

case year
  when 1981 .. 1989 then "Reagan"
  when 1989 .. 1992 then "Bush"
  when 1993 .. 2000 then "Clinton"
  when 2001 .. 2004 then "BushII"
end

or: 

case line
  when /failed/
    failed +=1
  when /warning/
    warning +=1
  when /pass/
    pass +=1
end

I'd certainly miss not being able to do these sorts of things.

>  * Prec module

Prec?

>  * maybe a few other things I can't think of now

Phil