In article <3c20319c$0$23431$afc38c87 / news.optusnet.com.au>,
Nightblade <nightblade / no.spam.thanks.com> wrote:
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>I'm new to Ruby, so please don't shout.  :-)  I used to really like doing
>these kind of things in Perl:  (example in metacode)

BTW: this will work in Ruby, just as you have it here: 
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>  $debug and print "some kind of message"
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>and:
>

This one won't work( but see my previous reply for an alternative):
>  unless $quiet print "extra info here"

Phil