Why Ruby?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.17.1292722525.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> imo, those @'s (or monkeys, as we like to call them) are a sore pain
> in the eye. And what if you need to do some simple arithmetic with the
> numbered arguments?
>
> someFunc!(@1+1>@2)(x);
>
> Might be a silly example, but code like this could exist and will be 
> confusing.
>

I had always liked the idea of something like @1, at 2,etc or _1,_2,etc, but I 
think this is a completely convincing counter-argument.