CSCI E-168

Here’s a link for some Perlisms in Ruby. There are of course many more that those the author lists here:

http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2007/10/06/obscure-and-ugly-perlisms-in-ruby

The whole discussion is very interesting. I think the author is being awfully harsh on the defined? method, because it is easy to imagine scenarios where you’re having a little trouble determining if Ruby is understanding something as a method or constant.