From: Ciur Eugen <ciur.eugen@...>
Date: 2010-08-04T04:16:43+09:00
Subject: Re: documenting string

Oh, indeed "instance variable"!!
and #@something inside doc string it sees live "#{@something}"!!!
Thank you very much, Bob, now understand!

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Bob Smith <rws1111@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe Ruby treats this as a double quoted string. The following
> seems to confirm that.
>
> irb(main):001:0> @cow = "bessie"
> => "bessie"
> irb(main):002:0> e = <<SOME
> irb(main):003:0" #
> irb(main):004:0" # moo
> irb(main):005:0" #
> irb(main):006:0" SOME
> => "#\n# moo\n#\n"
> irb(main):007:0> e
> => "#\n# moo\n#\n"
> irb(main):008:0> e = <<SOME
> irb(main):009:0" #
> irb(main):010:0" #@cow
> irb(main):011:0" #
> irb(main):012:0" SOME
> => "#\nbessie\n#\n"
>
>
> Looks like Ruby's sees the start of an instance variable when it hits
> the "@".
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>
>