From: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2009-04-05T13:29:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Got some syntax error I can't spot. Can you (I hope)?

On Apr 4, 12:34 pm, Leo <minil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I pulled my problem code from my app into a test onhttp://www.pastie.org/436616.
>
> You might want to take a look at ruby's heredoc syntax:
>
> Instead of
>
>     a = ("foo" + "(%d)" + " bar") % 123
>
> you could also use:
>
>     a = <<TEXT % 123
>     foo(%d) bar
>     TEXT

Hi Leo,

Nice idea!  Saves typing (and mistyping!) all those quotes, pluses, \n
and \t.  Works great!

Many thanks and
Best wishes,
Richard