David Alan Black wrote: > Simon Strandgaard <neoneye / adslhome.dk> writes: > > > At first sight I wondered what you are talking about. > > I have never done any perl programming in my life. > > IIUC perl interpolates $ inside strings.. that gave me a clue to > > what you are talking about. > > I'm not sure why :-) It was pure Ruby, not related to Perl. > > > Ruby should of cause not interpolate global variables! :-) > > Now I'm confused.... Why not? Or do you mean interpolate without > #{...} ? Agree we have lost syncronization here :-) Mark Hubbart has made an reply where he talk about the $ idea, that mail describes exactly what I had in mind to say. http://ruby-talk.org/101910 -- Simon Strandgaard