From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-06-01T07:52:58+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub!, replace with \'

David Alan Black wrote:
> Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk> writes:
> 
> > At first sight I wondered what you are talking about.  
> > I have never done any perl programming in my life. 
> > IIUC perl interpolates $ inside strings.. that gave me a clue to
> > what you are talking about.
> 
> I'm not sure why :-)  It was pure Ruby, not related to Perl.  
> 
> > Ruby should of cause not interpolate global variables!  :-)
> 
> Now I'm confused....  Why not?  Or do you mean interpolate without
> #{...} ?

Agree we have lost syncronization here :-)

Mark Hubbart has made an reply where he talk about the $ idea,
that mail describes exactly what I had in mind to say.
http://ruby-talk.org/101910

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Simon Strandgaard