From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T04:33:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, python, perl, ...

Brad Cox <bcox@virtualschool.edu> writes:

> poorly optimized. And python's support for string inclusions 
> (#{whatever} in ruby) is so bizarre that teachers couldn't use it.

Sorry for my lack of knowledge in Python. How does Python achive the
#{whatever}? Is the mechanism so bizarre?

I mean support for string inclusion is in all scripting languages I
know:

ksh: echo "The time is $date"
       or
     echo "The time is `date`"

perl: print "The time is $date\n"
        or
      print "The time is ".date."\n"

Of course ksh, and perl do not have the level of sophistication of
#{}, for example:

puts "The time is #{if show_in_gmt then Time.now.gmt else Time.now}"

YS.