>>>>> "A" == Angus McIntyre <angus / pobox.com> writes:

A> It seems that although Perl might do this, Ruby doesn't.

 No, perl do the same than ruby

A> This is with Ruby 1.4.2 running on LinuxPPC (I'm still trying to build 1.6.3).

A> Is this a bug in that version of Ruby, something weird about Ruby in 
A> general, or is it a case of 
A> 'problem-exists-between-chair-and-keyboard'?

 Work fine for me on

pigeon% ruby -v
ruby 1.4.2 (1999-09-18) [i686-linux]
pigeon% 


Guy Decoux