From: Relm <relm@3tlk.net>
Date: 2005-03-17T20:16:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Heredoc and array / hash construction syntax error

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, David Tran wrote:

> It seems stupid to put ',' on next line but I have no choice, 
> here is my use case with heredoc example:
> a = [
> <<EOD1
> abc
> very very long string and many many lines ...
> EOD1
> ,
> <<EOD2
> 123
> very very long string and many many lines ...
> EOD2
> ]
> 
> I cannot put the ',' just after EOD1, it must to the next line,
> if not, the "EOD1," is not consider termination of heredoc.
> but put the ',' on next line then I got syntax error ...

It may be more readable to put the expression on one line with all the
heredocs stacked beneath:

a = [<<EOD1, <<EOD2]
abc
very very long string and many many lines ...
EOD1
123
very very long string and many many lines ...
EOD2

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Relm