From: Gmail <jimfreeze@...>
Date: 2011-10-04T02:52:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:39883] Re: Discussion results (here documents with indents)

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On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Jim Freeze <jimfreeze@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How does String#margin behave when given irregular input?
>> For example
>> string = <<-END.margin
>> <tab>|doc
>> <3spaces>|doc
>> <1space>|doc
>> doc
>>     doc
>> END
> 
> It takes the first non-whitespace character to be the indent marker,
> so in the case it's controlling the margin using '<', and you get:
> 
>  tab>|doc
>  3spaces>|doc
>  1space>|doc
>  doc
>      doc

The <3spaces> is notation for three spaces. There is no '<' char.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Yusuke Endoh <mame@tsg.ne.jp> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> How about importing String#margin from Facets?
>>>> 
>>>>  my_string = <<-END.margin
>>>>    |doc
>>>>    |doc
>>>>    |doc
>>>>  END
>>>> 
>>>>  p my_string  #=> "doc\ndoc\ndoc"
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://rubyworks.github.com/facets/doc/api/core/String.html#method-i-margin
>>> 
>>> Yes, in fact #margin was born from the idea of %L. The downside of
>>> #margin is that it requires more processing overhead, where as the
>>> literal notation would be very fast (if it is possible to implement in
>>> Ruby parser).
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Jim Freeze
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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