----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nobu.nokada / softhome.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: Coding challenge: Space-separated constants


> Hi,
> 
> At Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:53:54 +0900,
> Hal E. Fulton <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> > Hashes and arrays are allowed as long as
> > their contents are constants. Regexes are
> > allowed. Fancy strings are allowed, but
> > not here-docs. Proc objects and other 
> > esoteric things are not allowed.
> 
> What about #{}?

Good question. My hesitant response is no.

I am thinking of this as a data format. So
there should be no variables used -- nothing
that would require the presence or maintenance
of a certain context.

But what about something like #{rand} or
#{Time.now}? Truthfully I haven't thought
about it.

Hal