From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T22:19:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [EVALUATION] - E03 - jamLang Evaluation Case Applied to Ruby

Jacob Fugal wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:59:50 +0900, Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com> wrote:
[...]

>>"#" is used as a comment marker _and_ partly within code.
>>
>>Can I use another comment marker?
> 
> No. To my knowledge there is only the one comment syntax in ruby.

ok

>>Can I write "puts "#{thisMethodName}: Hello World"" in an different
>>manner, without the use of "#"?
> 
> Sure. #{thisMethodName} in a string literal simply calls .to_s on the
> enclosed expression and inserts it at the designated location. So we
> can pull that out such:
> 
>   puts thisMethodName.to_s + ": Hello World"

ok.

I like this contruct more:

"puts "#{thisMethodName}: Hello World"

but the usage of "#" is missleading (comment marker)

> The + operator performs concatenation when its arguments are strings.
> 
> Jacob Fugal

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