----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Pine" <nemo / hellotree.com>

>
> Well, I won't disagree with you there.  But, as I said, I have found that
> people play with strings more often than numbers, and I do think that
>
>   puts 'Hello ' + name
>
> is more readable than
>
>   puts 'Hello #{name}'
>
> (at least to a nuby) but maybe that's just me.
>
> Chris


No, that's entirely correct.  One of the great aspects of your tutorial
approach is that you take something familiar - addition - and show how it can
be done with lots of different things.

Substitution has no place in such a tutorial.

Gavin