[kragen]

> I think Groovy's syntax is great, where quotation marks denote an interpolated string, and apostrophes denote a plain old string.

That's Perl's syntax, from about 15 years before Groovy, whippersnapper. Off my lawn, now.

[dragonwriter]

Yeah, Groovy got it from Ruby which got it from Perl.

[kragen]

Yeah, Ruby uses the doublequote/singlequote distinction from Perl, but Ruby tags variables to interpolate with #{}, while Groovy and Perl use $.

Oh, although I guess Perl got that syntax from the Bourne shell…

[dragonwriter]

> Yeah, Ruby uses the doublequote/singlequote distinction from Perl, but Ruby tags variables to interpolate with #{}, while Groovy and Perl use $.

Huh, I could have sworn that I remembered that Groovy has taken it from Ruby.

Incidentally, Ruby uses just # for variables, it uses #{} for arbitrary expressions. A common style prefers #{} even where # alone works, though.

[kragen]

#notallvariables