From: Peter <Peter.Vanbroekhoven@...>
Date: 2003-09-17T07:38:13+09:00
Subject: Re: #{} and \" don't like each other

> Truthfully, I'm not sure why this happens. But since the
> warning is accurate and explicit, I don't think it's a bug,
> but perhaps one of those features that's it's not immediately
> obvious we need.

The following simple expression gives exactly the same error message

  "#{\"}"

In this case I'd expect that error message...

> FWIW, this avoids it:
> 
>    name = "peter"
>    print "<user name=\"#{name}\"></user>"
> 
> So it evidently has to do specifically with the escaped terminator
> *inside* the interpolated part.

I know this avoids it, but it was when the name=\"#{name}\" needed to
become optional, I moved it all inside the #{} and used the ? : operator
to either generate the "name=\"" + name + "\"" or else a simple "".

Peter