From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2004-10-03T12:55:51+09:00
Subject: Feature Request:  Truly Indented Here-Docs

Ruby's here-doc syntax baffles me.  I don't get the indent the end tag 
feature.

string = <<-END_OF_STRING
	Line one...
	line two...
	line three.
	END_OF_STRING

That leaves all the tabs at the beginning of those lines, which then 
begs the question, why did I bother to indent the end tag?

It would make a lot more sense to me if lines of a here-doc were 
stripped of leading whitespace equal to the indention of the end tag.  
Is there any reason this wasn't done, or isn't practical?

If not, please consider this an official request, by at least one 
coder...

James Edward Gray II