From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2003-11-30T14:08:58+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

Ferenc Engard wrote:
>>Candidates are:
>>
>>  * Perl style variables
> 
> If you still intend to use ruby for one-liners, then they should remain
> IMHO. Anyway, they do not harm anybody. I vote to not removing them.
> 
> Or, maybe to not defining them by default, but enabling them with a
> cmdline switch?

I second that. Ruby has been a great Perl replacement for me partly 
because of this. Though the more I use Ruby, the less I use $_ and 
friends. The only variables I still use quite often is $1, $2, ... They 
are globals, not thread-safe, etc, but great for oneliners.

-- 
dave