David A. Black wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Aredridel wrote: > Indeed. And the realization that Ruby's interpolation goes beyond > variables, and that the "extra" symbols aren't extra, is one of the > traditional rites of passage :-) You can do that in Perl, too: print "1 + 1 = @{[1 + 1]}\n" 1 + 1 = 2 But if one thinks, that Ruby is ugly... ;) -- Florian Frank