From: Daniel Baird <danielbaird@...>
Date: 2006-03-29T13:49:11+09:00
Subject: Re: strings and ruby style?

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To my (newbish) eye, it looks crazy to put a single #{} in a string like
this "#{args[1]}".  It looks less crazy to do it when you actually have som=
e
literal string content in there as well, like this "#{args[2]}_fld".

So I guess I'm voting for example one.

;Daniel (no, not *that* Daniel)



On 29/03/06, Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@it.fts-vn.com> wrote:
>
> Which of the following is considered better style?
>
> $ie.text_field(args[0],
>
> $test_data[args[1].to_s]["#{args[2]}_fld"]).value=3D$test_data[args[1].to=
_s][args[2].to_s]
>
> $ie.text_field(args[0],
>
> $test_data["#{args[1]}"]["#{args[2]}_fld"]).value=3D$test_data["#{args[1]=
}"]["#{args[2]}"]
>
> ie is it better to use args[1].to_s or "#{args[1]}"
>
> My current thinking is that "#{}" should be used when concatenating
> strings together with values (or interpolating), where as .to_s should
> be used when you want the string representation of an object.
>
> Thanks
> Kev
>
> PS - I managed to get rid of all the evals hooray for me!
>
>


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