From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-12-01T23:08:06+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

On Monday, December 1, 2003, 3:29:00 PM, David wrote:

> [...]

>> 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.

The English equivalents are a good lookup guide as to what on earth
the snoopy-swearing variables mean :)

Gavin