From: Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@...>
Date: 2003-12-01T06:14:53+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

Hi!

* Ferenc Engard; 2003-11-30, 13:06 UTC:
* * Yukihiro Matsumoto
> > 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 cannot see anything that requires one-liners besides showing off.
They are not even fun in most cases.

> Or, maybe to not defining them by default, but enabling them with a
> cmdline switch?

Matz pointed out that he also wants to remove the "require "English"'
equivalents. I therefore don't think that he wants to remove the
variables because they look ugly but because they obfuscate code.

I think that expressing algorithms with as few characters as possible
should always be a side-effect of the syntax of a programming
language resulting from 'making simple things simple and complicated
things possible' but not a design principle of its own.

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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