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Re:English.rb: stop writing Ruby like Perl by stephenr on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @12:45PM (#5287098)
Wow, I never knew Ruby's predefined global variables were so cryptically named. (Not a ruby developer)

Is there any sane reason it was designed this way (the language I mean, not this fix)

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Re:English.rb: stop writing Ruby like Perl by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @02:50PM (#5288005)
ISTR (and I've never had much knowledge of Perl), the magic globals were lifted directly from Perl and were intended to support Perl->Ruby transition.
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