From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-02-18T23:21:33+09:00
Subject: Re: String quoting %Q

"Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek" <hramrach@yahoo.com> writes:

> There's some writing in ProgrammingRuby-0.3a in "Standard Types" about
> % quoting. I tried different qouting chars in ruby 1.6.6 and those of
> [0-9a-zA-Z] I tried didnt work.
> 
> Its not explicitly stated there you should use punctuation for
> quoting. Perhaps a clarification in the book would solve this? Or have
> I missed something?

I believe that this is a change to the language that happened after we
published the book. I've added an entry to the errata.

Dave