From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-09-18T18:01:03+09:00
Subject: Re: comments and continuing strings on the next line

Hi,

At Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:53:48 +0900,
William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
> In my opinion, the #{expression} rule ought to take precedence than the
> comment rule (comment from # until the end of line).  Just like in C,
> where a /* */ comment becomes ineffective inside a string, and also in
> Ruby, so I usually regard #{...} as another "mini-interpreter" where
> .... is "eval"-ed in its own space.

Comments are from # until EOL, always.  And also comment in
Ruby is ineffective too.

If you want "eval"-like effect, I guess it's better to use
"eval".

> Is there any drawback in the rule in 1.6 so that it should be changed in
> 1.7?

Now you don't need to escape quotes even inside a nested string
interpolation.  And another issue, see the threads start from
[ruby-talk:40979] and [ruby-core:00042].

-- 
Nobu Nakada