From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2002-12-12T04:40:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Book for People Who Aren't (Yet) Programmers

In article <0cdf01c29c71$c9d6a4c0$6401a8c0@MELONBALLER>, Chris Pine wrote:

> Well, I won't disagree with you there.  But, as I said, I have found that
> people play with strings more often than numbers, and I do think that
> 
>   puts 'Hello ' + name
> 
> is more readable than
> 
>   puts 'Hello #{name}'

They don't do the same thing.  Be aware of the difference between single
and double quotes:

[mike@ratdog Mail]$ irb
irb(main):001:0> name = 'Mike'
=> "Mike"
irb(main):002:0> 'Hello ' + name
=> "Hello Mike"
irb(main):003:0> 'Hello #{name}'
=> "Hello #{name}"
irb(main):004:0> "Hello #{name}"
=> "Hello Mike"

Mike

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