From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-12-18T04:19:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Very odd IO problem

Hi,

In message "Re: Very odd IO problem"
    on 03/12/18, Brad <BCoish@Dymaxion.com> writes:

|I tried the above example, but it has a syntax error, 3 ".
|So, I tried adding a fourth " to balance out the quoting,
|ruby didn't complain, but nothing was displayed either.

Oops, sorry.

|I also tried a variation on this:
|
|ruby -e 'puts `ruby -e "puts(4)"`'
|
|I think it failed because of the way command line arguments 
|are parsed.  Interesting fact: command line parsing must be
|be written by the programmer on VMS. i.e. expanding wild cards
|is not automatically handled by the command line interpreter.
|The quotes must not have been handled properly; I'll have to
|look into this.

How about replacing Dir.getcwd in the first example with

  print "hello"

i.e.

File: [bh.scripts]cwd.rb
   print "hello"


A:BH> ruby
p `ruby [bh.scripts]cwd.rb`.dump
puts `ruby [bh.scripts]cwd.rb`

can you try?

							matz.