From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T20:46:41+09:00
Subject: Problem with HERE document as first parameter (parser bug?)

I have problems passing a HERE document as the first parameter
to a function expecting more than 1 parameter. Example:

# This is file here1.rb
def q(a,b)
end
q(<<-END
    line1
    line2
  END
,'x')


Executing this program yields the error messages

./here1.rb:9: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')'
,'x')
 ^
./here1.rb:9: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting $end


Using a temporary variable to hold the content of the HERE
string works fine though:

temp=<<-END
    line1
    line2
  END
q(temp,'x')


Bug in Ruby? Or do I misunderstand something in the workings of the
parser?

Ronald
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