From: HarryO <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-10-04T20:07:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22078] Re: Marshal won't dump a Proc

In article <20011004015927.A833@perception.phlo.org>, "Florian G. Pflug"
<fgp@phlo.org> wrote:

> Did you know that " %{ .... }" is a string literal in ruby?

Yes, I did know that, but I'm fairly sure that when I tried it, I got
parse errors, presumably due to the appearance of "}" in the middle of
some of the more complex blocks I wanted to use.

However, I did find that using a "here" document  worked just fine,
 
> By using this, from the users point of view the only different to
> passing a "real" block, instead of a string, would be that he has to
> write a "%" before the curly brace. (and this it would act like a
> closure, e.g. giving you access to the surrounding variables).

I'm going to have another try using "%{ ... }", just in case the parse
error I was due to some other problem I had at the time, because I agree,
this would be a nicer syntax.

Thanks for the comments.