From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-08-30T03:49:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug? (1.8.0)

> That's interesting and syntactically subtle.
> 
> Here are the facts the explain this:
> 1. Regexes can have interpolated values just like strings
> 2. When an expression is a single name and that name starts
>    with a special symbol like @, @@, or $, the braces can
>    be omitted
> 3. $/ is one of the ugly special variables
> 4. So #$/ is interpreted as inserting the value of $/ into
>    the regex
> 5. The regex then consumes the rest of the line
> 6. The interpreter apparently does not distinguish between
>    strings and regular expressions when reporting that
>    something is unterminated.

I'm not sure I followed that.  Can you explain to me how 1-6 explain 
this?:

>> p "#$"
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):22: unterminated string meets end of file
        from (irb):22



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