From: noreply@...
Date: 2004-12-09T02:36:20+09:00
Subject: [ ruby-Bugs-1173 ] Incorrect escaping in strings produced by String::inspect

Bugs item #1173, was opened at 2004-12-08 17:35
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Category: Core
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Andrew Eland (andreweland)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Incorrect escaping in strings produced by String::inspect

Initial Comment:
The following causes a runtime syntax error:
eval('Foo #@ bar'.inspect)

I'm not sure if that use-case is supposed to be supported, but I think a number of applications rely on it.

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