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> The removal of the flip-flop operator Well that never happened. It was deprecated with the intention to remove it, but they backtracked: https://bugs.ruby-la

• pizza234 7y ago
  Interesting. The discussion, although minimal, lasted years, then closed pretty quickly. Good for Ruby :-)
• faitswulff 7y ago
  I'm glad Ruby takes community feedback seriously, for the most part - most recently the pipeline operator and the named block parameters, for instance.
• cutler 7y ago
  I heard Matz is going to remove the Perl special variables in Ruby 3.0. Can't think what the fuss is all about. They're pretty useful in command-line Ruby. I moved from Perl to Ruby so I will be sad to see this bit of Perl heritage removed from Ruby. I mean for what gain?
  • byroot 7y ago
    Only a very small subset of them: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14240 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14240 $/ input record separator (default argument for "gets") $\ output record separator ("print" prints it at last) $, default separator for Array#join and print $; default separator for String#split As for the gain it's because these variables globally change the behavior of important core methods. They really aren't that useful, but can easily cause havoc.