From: Killy Draw <KDr2@163.com>
Date: 2007-09-04T19:00:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntaxerror with HERE document



Ronald Fischer wrote:
> Why does the following statement give syntax error "undefined method
> `STDOUT'"?
> 
> STDOUT <<-END
>    line 1
>    line 2
>    END
> 
this means:
   tmp_str="line 1\nline 2\n";
   STDOUT tmp_str;

> After all, the following works:
> 
> s=<<-END
>    line 1
>    line 2
>    END
> STDOUT << s

and this means:
   tmp_str="line 1\nline 2\n";
   STDOUT<<tmp_str;


STDOUT is a var(the std out)
"<<" is a *method* of STDOUT

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