From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2003-12-02T21:12:30+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In message "Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?"
>    on 03/11/30, "Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT" <jupp@gmx.de> writes:
>
>|>   * Perl style variables
>|
>|Just removal of $#{some_character} or also removal of
>|${Insert_some_alias_from_English_dot_rb} ?
>
>Both.  But I have consider about each variable before removing.  Some
>of them are useful.
>  
>
i don't know if $* is in this list, but i consider it extremely 
intuitive to remember (also because it's used in shell scripts AFAIK) 
and also concise. actually i don't know the alternative and i don't want 
to wonder if it's all caps, with underscores or whatever...

i hope this one will stay.

emmanuel