Money is the Root of all ..

Rick DeNatale — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:16:00 -0400

$. Or at least implicit $

Just seen on ruby-talk:

|If we call gets(), the returned string is copied to a special variable $_
|Do we have such things for getc(), too?
No, implicit global variables are evil. I’d rather remove $_ in the future.

matz.

Maybe the reason that Matz picked $ as the sigil for global variables wasn’t to follow perl!

And this just after we learn that “Fahrenheit-451” was about the dangers not of government censorship but of TV.”

Talk Like A Duck: Money is the Root of all ..

Money is the Root of all ..