At 02:29 PM 6/15/01 +0900, Michael Lucas-Smith wrote:
>Is there a hope at all of getting ^ in to the language as an alias for
>return ? I think it's a useful short cut.. and I can't understand why it
>isn't there already. After all, perl is all about achieving the most
>with the least amount of work. It seems silly to have to type 5 extra
>characters to describe a return when ^ is obvious enough.

Michael,
         you can save one more character already. Without an explicit 
return, the value of the last evaluated expression is returned. You can write:

def twice(x)
   2*x
end

twice(4)               --> 8

class Fixnum
   def odd?
     if self%2 == 0
       false
     else
       true
     end
   end
end

2.odd?               --> false

Bye,
         Luigi