From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-03-14T21:49:41+09:00
Subject: Re: long string arguments

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:16:09 +0900, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
[snip]
> Does something like CPP exist in Ruby? I.e. a way to define some symbols
> that expand during the code. In a C-ish way:
> 
> #define <% myputs %Q|
> #define %> |
[snip]
>     myputs %Q|
>                 ...
>                 ...
>             |
>             
> It would be nice if I could substitute the above with 2 distinct Object's 
> operators. 


C/C++ has a preprocessor, Ruby doesn't. 

However using 'eval' can easily let you do similar things.

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Simon Strandgaard