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Comment by stouset

2 days ago

This was removed in Ruby 2.7. It was neat, but a bit of a blunt instrument.

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burnt-resistor  1 day ago

True, it had it for a while. Some folks consider Ruby to be Perl's spiritual successor while Python is oft considered the anti-Perl. Ruby's special global variables are pretty Perl like.

  • stouset  18 hours ago

    I consider Ruby to be Perl 6 :)

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