From: Chris Uppal <chris.uppal@...>
Date: 2003-11-30T20:57:11+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.

[I'm an outsider delurking on this newsgroup for the first time]

I want to add the observation that the Perlisms in Ruby were a major (perhaps
*the* major) factor that put me off the language when I looked at it a year or
so ago.

    -- chris