From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-10-25T17:16:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23269] Re: Parsing Ruby's interpolated strings/regexps

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
Hi,

> Too many backslashes in strings often irritate me.  Plus some use them
> as "pseudo blocks" like
> 
>   obj.method %{
>     # ..code body..
>   }  
> 
Oh yes, these are useful. I mean the ones not using any of the braces or
parentheses:

    %!str!
    %/str/
    % str_str 

etc. Is anyone using them?

/Robert