From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2000-08-08T14:32:19+01:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04345] Re: DRY and embedded docs.

On 8 Aug 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

> And a darn fine rule it is too.. ;-)

	:-)
> 
> This is kind of tacky, but it does work--both rd and the program can
> access the same explanatory text:
> 
[Example of reading DATA trimmed]
That is an interesting idea.  I think that will solve my 
problem, and it can be extended for more sophisticated parsing
(picking up different bits to insert).  Thinking outside the
box almost literally. :-)

> 
> Dave
> 
> 
	Hugh
	hgs@dmu.ac.uk