From: Eric Schwartz <eric.schwartz@...>
Date: 2003-01-17T07:03:11+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345

Mauricio Fern�ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 02:35:55AM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> > It looks nice, and once I got inclined to it.  But now we have
> > 3 types of string literals, with string interpolation as
> > doublequote, without it as singlequote, and command
> > substitution as backquote.  I wonder which it corresponds to.
> 
> We can impose a different character for each type:
> s = <<|Hello
>       |I am #{interpoladed}
> s2 = <<.I
>        .am
>        .not interpolated!

Ick.  I much prefer Perl's version, where

$foo = <<EOSTR;
bah, this is $interpolated
EOSTR

is interpolated and 

$bar = <<'EOSTR';
$this is a literal '$' followed by 'this'.
EOSTR

is not.  Using separate characters like that is just asking for
confusion, to my mind, especially when they don't have any prior
associations to enhance their meaning.  Why not at least reuse the
ones we already have?

-=Eric
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