From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2012-02-01T16:31:38+09:00
Subject: Re: why we need heredoc


On Feb 1, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Josh Cheek wrote:

> 2012/1/31 Matthias Wächter <matthias@waechter.wiz.at>
> 
>> On 31.01.2012 15:50, Josh Cheek wrote:
>> 
>>> It's great if you want to copy and paste some text. The text might have
>>> single and double quotes in it, but with a heredoc that doesn't matter.
>>> Otherwise, you'd have to go through your document, find all the quotes,
>>> and
>>> escape them.
>>> 
>> 
>> take care of “some text” here. If the text contains your stop word, you’re
>> gonna have to escape that as well. Or choose a different stop word then.
>> 
>> 
> In practice, I've never had that happen, but in any situation where it was
> likely, I'd probably have thrown it under __END__ and read it in, or put it
> in its own file.

First of all, as this is a literal, this would be a parse error, so it doesn't
matter that much. Also, the stop word has to be at the beginning of a line.

<<-HERE
test HERE
HERE 
=> "test HERE\n"