This is one of my favorite features of Ruby!

Though Ruby makes it confusing AF because there are two quoting types for both strings and symbols, and they're different. (%Q %q %W %w %i) I can never remember which does which.... the letter choice feels really arbitrary.

Elixir has something like this too, but even more powerful (you can define your own):

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/sigils.html#strings-...

Ruby and Elixir both have features like this. Very sweet.

Elixir has sigils, which are useful for defining all kinds of literals easier, not just strings:

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/sigils.html#strings-...

You can also define your own. It's pretty great.

This means that you can even quote the delimiter in the string as long as it's balanced.

    $X=q( foo() )

Should work if it's balanced. If you choose a different pair like []{} then you can avoid hitting collisions. It also means that you can trivially nest quotations.

I agree that this qualified quotation is really underutilized.