From: "Mark J. Reed" Date: 2003-11-30T04:42:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby vs Python (IMHO) A couple insertions below: On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 07:40:45PM +0000, Mark J. Reed wrote: > re.match("^(" + char + r"+)\s*{\s*(" + char + "+),(.*)}" ,str) > That leaves the lack of string interpolation as the main annoyance, and many > people, especially those who learned to program with classical languages, find > explicit appends much clearer than interpolation, because their eyes sort > of skip right over string literals in "nothing to see here" mode. -Mark