From: Peter Date: 2003-09-17T10:07:33+09:00 Subject: Re: #{} and \" don't like each other > As to why, I don't know. As to whether it is necessary that it be this > way, I don't know. I don't know either. What I do know is that the expression I wrote down made sense to me, and that the Principle of Least Surprise says that it then also should to the ruby interpreter, but it did not (forgive me the blasphemy). I'm curious as to what the problem is rather than interested in knowing all possible work-arounds. The latter was never the intention of my initial e-mail (but thanks anyway for the many replies, I can see now why people exclaim that they love the ruby community :-) I'll wait for Matz to show up. Regards, Peter