From: Paul Brannan <paul@...>
Date: 2002-02-20T06:02:44+09:00
Subject: strings embedded inside strings

I've seen this on the ML before, but searching the ruby-talk archives I
don't see a good answer.

I want to do this:

  puts "#{"'"}"

It doesn't work, I think because ruby sees it as:

  puts '#{' '"}"

and there is no closing '.

I can work around ruby by doing:

  apostrophe = "'"
  puts "#{apostrophe}"

and perhaps it is cleaner.  But is what I want to do a reasonable thing
to be able to do?  Should Ruby allow me to do it?

Paul