From: Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2008-01-10T04:44:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby wish-list

On Jan 9, 2008 2:37 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> My biggest wish list currently is...I wish I didn't have to use # within
> strings--just braces.  That would ruby-like in elegance, in my opinion,
> and (I think) parsable.
> Thoughts?
> -Roger
>
>

I think bare braces are too common in strings to force backslashing
them all over the place, whereas the character sequence #{ almost
never shows up. Plus, it would be a mess every time you wanted to,
say, eval() a string that includes a block.

-A