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Cryptic Ruby Global Variables and Their Meaning

by JimNeath —

How many times have you looked at some ruby code and found strange variable names (eg. $0, $:, etc) and wondered what they meant? Well here’s an explanation

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These globals only seem cryptic if you haven’t spent years coding in Perl :)

foz —

They are called “special variables” and inherited from the Perl world, not exactly “cryptic global variables”.

damog —

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