From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@...>
Date: 2011-06-02T16:01:11+09:00
Subject: Re: CORE - Alternative Variable Substitution

 On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:00:29 +0900, Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> On 1 Ιούν, 18:07, Christopher Dicely <cmdic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, as you are probably aware (though newbies reading may not be),
>> Ruby already provides a shortcut interpolation of the kind you ask
>> for, but only for instance variables, not locals (e.g., instead of
>> "@foo is #{@foo}" you can use "@foo is #@foo".)
>
> I understand, for local variables only:
>
> print "#@name has 5 credits"

 @name is not a local variable, but an instance variable.

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