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I see that as a feature. It looks like you're saying "I want to add numbers and letters together and Ruby complains."

If you really want that value in your string, why not use "The value is #{value}"



Maybe they're afraid the translation team will be overly grateful?


Appending doesn't work for translation: not all languages will have the object at the end of the sentence. Better to stick with format strings.


That's what I meant...




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