Lexical Conventions
Ruby programs are composed of elements already familiar to most programmers: lines, whitespace, comments, identifiers, reserved words, literals, etc. Particularly for those programmers coming from other scripting languages such as Perl, Python or tcl, you’ll find Ruby’s conventions familiar, or at least straightforward enough not to cause much trouble.
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