From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-04-27T03:53:26+09:00
Subject: Re: can you guess

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 03:29:14AM +0900, ahoward wrote:
> 
> 
> what this prints:
> 
>   raise "NO FAIR RUNNING IT!"
> 
>   class String
>     def expand(*args)
>       % args
>     end
>   end
> 
>   template = "insert into foobar values('%s', '%s')"
>   puts(template.expand :foo, :bar)
> 
> 
> if so, why?
> 

% args 
is read as a string literal, ie.
% args   <=> "args" <=> %{args} <=> %Q{args}
 ^    ^
  spaces

Maybe spaces shouldn't be allowed as delimiters.

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