On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:24:59PM -0700, Andrew Shafer wrote: > One point of clarification, $1 and the other $n variables that get set from > a regex are NOT globals. > > They are dynamically scoped. Oh right, apologies getting that wrong (late, long day). They are also thread-local. Thanks for correcting me Andrew.
> But $almostanythingelse IS global... ahh, Ruby... Yeah. One of the (few) places where Ruby compromised in order to be Perl-compatible. Personally I wish these fake $-variables would just go away. They seem like a wart on Ruby's otherwise pretty clean syntax. -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
