From: Todd Burch <promos@...>
Date: 2008-01-12T03:14:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Here Document syntax is stringent - trailing blank

Gary Wright wrote:

> I would guess because it is simpler to implement and simpler to
> understand.
> ...
> It is just simpler and less ambiguous to look for a line that
> contains the delimiter and only the delimiter.
> 
> Gary Wright

Well, I would agree that certainly would be simpler to implement. 
However, I don't see it as conforming to the rest of ruby's loose coding 
allowances.

I can put as many blanks as I want after the top delimiter - ruby 
figures it out.   Ruby already requires the ending delimiter to be in 
column 1.

All in all, it just seems non-ruby-ish.   (Not to mention the fact that 
it causes me grief when send a file from my Mac to my PC, and run it 
through a CRLF fixer-program that turns the first extra of the double 
CRs into blanks, and subsequently causes ruby parser errors for these 
situations)

Todd
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