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Some really weird ruby script showing some awkish/sedish features
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r.rb
$/=%q(/)
$\=%Q(\t)
while DATA.gets
BEGIN {puts "START #{$0}"}
END {puts "DONE."}
print
puts $_[/a(.{2})/,1] || '--'
end
__END__
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bxt commented Nov 16, 2016

So apparently in recent rubies BEGIN and END are a little more sane, this script now throws an error:

r.rb:5: BEGIN is permitted only at toplevel
  BEGIN {puts "START #{$0}"}
       ^

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