On 5/18/07, jim o <jamesoyim / yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have had a horrible time googling this as I get too many hits back that don't apply.
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> I am new to Ruby, and trying to find a good ref as for when one would use the form
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>     puts #{a}
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>     puts a
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> Does anyone have any pointers?

You mean:
puts "#{a}"

Right? If so then it simply helps to do:

puts "foo=#{a} allows you to do more interesting things"

If you just want to print 'a' then there's no reason to do "#{a}" it
would be like doing "%s" % [a]; you can do it, but it doesn't make
sense.

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Felipe Contreras