[ruby-core:37085] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4877] Unify Variable Expansion within Strings

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Lazaridis Ilias <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> Expanding non-prefixed variables/expressions are too easy to conflict.  For example, you will have problem to print a string like "Foo#bar".  It would print "Foonil" or whatever depends on the value of the local variable bar.  For me, that is annoying too much.

Completely agree.

> I understand this, but:
>  * a typical user does not use "Class#method" often.
>  * Even if, he could simply uses "Class\#method".

This is a lousy work-around for a problem created by a solution to a
non-problem.

>
> Subjecting the issue-processing:
>
> why are you so eager to "reject" immediately? I understand that "Rejected" means that the issue topic is closed, and it will not dealt with.

As you're a stickler for staying on-topic, what are your comments on
issue processing doing here?

>
> But the issue topic is "Unify Variable Expansion within Strings", is a good goal, for the users benefit. And it can happen in other ways, too.
>
> Examples are:
>
>  * puts "#$g #@@c #@i ##l ##f" (typing "#" twice is still very fast)
>  * puts "~$g ~@@c ~@i ~l ~f"   (unify variable expansion based on another char, usual way via # and #{} remains)
>

#{l} is cleaner and more readable for me than ##l. And you still
introduce potential conflicts with existing code which has strings
involving "~" and "##".

> There are other possible ways, but with a "rejected" you discourage any discussion.

Please remain professional and on-topic.