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in reply to Re^2: Numification of strings
in thread Numification of strings

> Curiously, Ruby's to_i() method, a la Perl

Not that surprising, Ruby is semantically a Perl clone with new syntax and Smalltalk OOP.

It's a kind of newspeak... (I have a friend who discovered the flip-flop operator just after learning Ruby ... after working in a Perl project for 2 years. :)

The only semantic resemblance to python I could find so far is the way new variables are bound and scoped.

Cheers Rolf