From: s@... (Stefan Schmiedl)
Date: 2002-02-20T06:17:51+09:00
Subject: Re: strings embedded inside strings

Paul,

what about puts "'" ?

why do you want/need the additional layer of indirection?

s.

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 21:04:57 GMT,
Paul Brannan <paul@atdesk.com> wrote:
> 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
>