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I'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pink (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, you could very well argue that JS and others that use it for weird interpolated strings are the weird ones here.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On the other hand, interpolated strings are fucking awesome and you need them every 5 seconds for UI work

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Sure, but in Perl and other languages there is a difference between "$foo" and '$foo'. In that the first expands the value of foo, while the other doesn't.

But usually if you need to write stuff in noisy strings, just use printf/sprintf. Or a <<HERE block.