From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2003-12-01T13:29:00+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:
> I cannot see anything that requires one-liners besides showing off.
> They are not even fun in most cases.

I find the ability to write one-liners _amazingly_ useful. Perhaps you 
don't use shell/command-line interface much. But many, many Unix/Linux 
users do most of their stuffs in shell daily. And using a combination of 
Unix commands sometimes are just not powerful/easy/portable enough. I 
use Perl & Ruby one-liners for all things, from renaming a bunch of 
files according to some string/regex operation (e.g. changing all 
".tar.gz" to ".tgz"), manipulating file contents (e.g. neutralizing 
"evil" HTML pages), downloading recursively but with some complex rules 
that wget can't do, etc.

Btw, I even have a text file where I store hundreds of Perl & Ruby 
one-liners which I can just copy paste to the shell window whenever I 
needs them. It beats having hundreds of script files which I don't know 
how to name properly.

> Matz pointed out that he also wants to remove the "require "English"'
> equivalents.

This one I agree. Nobody in the world seems to use 'require "English"' 
in Ruby or 'use English' in Perl. Those using $_, $/, etc will use them 
in the short form. Those hating them will not use them anyway, not even 
the pretty English names.

-- 
dave