From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-10-31T17:16:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23924] Re: question about string interpolation and '#{}'

In article <005501c161e0$3b6f4100$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com>,
Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com>
>Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
>To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients: ;>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:36 AM
>Subject: [ruby-talk:23918] question about string interpolation and '#{}'
>
>
>> I think I'm really trying to do some strange things with string 
>> interpolation and I'm not sure if what I want to do is completly 
>> possible...
>
>Probably a silly question on my part... it's 1:46 am in my timezone --
>but why are you doing eval str.inspect rather than just eval str?
>
 
Good question.  Because not all of the stuff in the strings to be eval'ed 
is Ruby code, only the stuff between #{ and }.

Phil