From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T22:57:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-1173 ] Incorrect escaping in strings produced by     String::inspect

David A. Black wrote:

>> I think the original poster wanted '#@a'.inspect to be "\#@a" instead 
>> of "#@a". (There's no interpolation for single quote Strings and this 
>> form of variable interpolation can be escaped via \)
> 
> I don't think that's what he meant.  eval('#@a'.inspect) doesn't raise
> a SyntaxError, whereas what he's written does and that was what he was
> suggesting was buggy.

It does not raise a SyntaxError, but it does not produce '#@a' -- it 
produces ''. It's the same issue that raises a syntax error for 
eval('#@'.inspect).