Hi, On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:09:21 -0300, Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa / gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:35:42 +0900, Navindra Umanee > <navindra / cs.mcgill.ca> wrote: > > Zach Dennis <zdennis / mktec.com> wrote: > > > - you can use string interpolation, ex: "x: #{@myvar}" instead of > > > having to say "x:" + myvar' > > > > Ruby seems to lose here. The syntax #{@myvar} is a rare case of > > ugliness. > > It's funny how we can disagree over such "simple" syntax. :-) Fact is, > @is_not_a_method, and it has the escope explicit (always better then > implicit, right?), besides being only one character. Perfect, Matz, > thanks. :-) Sorry to reply to myself, but I didn't think that you were complaining of the interpolation, which is plenty useful when passing code around to be evaluated (eval). Regards, Joao