From: Jos Backus <josb@...>
Date: 2002-01-30T05:19:03+09:00
Subject: Re: problems with string interpolation

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:01:15AM +0900, ts wrote:
>  Well you have 2 steps with this construct 
> 
>     s.gsub(%r{([^A-Za-z])}, '\\\\\1')
> 
>   1) when ruby compile the script, it create a String with the second
>      argument at this step the string created is
> 
>       '\\\1'

Slightly off-topic: what's confusing for me personally here is that in a
certain P language which I also happen to (have to) use, unlike Ruby,
backslashes are _not_ substituted in single-quoted strings.

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