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