From: Tim Bates <tim@...>
Date: 2003-04-27T08:45:31+09:00
Subject: Re: can you guess

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 6:19 am, Brian Candler wrote:
> As a guess - is it anything to do with the various string notations like
> %x{...} for execute etc? i.e.
>
>     %{args}
>
> seems to give the same result.

Yes, as does
  %;args;
You can use any character as a delimiter in Ruby, remember? So in the case of
  % args
You're using spaces as delimiters. I think. irb does some very strange things 
in this case, depending on whether you put a space after the 'args' or not:

(Replace '_' with space)
irb(main):027:0> class_String
irb(main):028:1> def_expand(*args)
irb(main):029:2> %_args_
irb(main):030:2> end
irb(main):031:1> end

Works fine.

irb(main):015:0> class_String
irb(main):016:1> def_expand(*args)
irb(main):017:2> %_args
irb(main):018:2" end
irb(main):019:2" end

Still thinks it's inside the string, because I haven't used a 'closing space' 
yet.

Tim Bates
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