[ruby-talk:00589] Re: New feature request! :-)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:00570] Re: New feature request! :-)"
    on 99/08/06, [e-mail] <[e-mail]> writes:
>>   * How about using here-document?  Like:
>> 
>> 		raise TypeError, <<EOS
>> This is a very long string that doesn't fit very well on a single source line
>> EOS
>
>Of course, but it is very very ugly! My proposal is, to let the code
>looks much prettier! :-)

A joke solution:

def pystr(program)
  # does NOT treat single quoted 'strings'. 
  `python -c 'print #{program.gsub("\047", %q[\\\\\\\\047])}'`.chomp
end

#a = pystr(<<EOS)
raise TypeError, pystr(<<EOS)
   "This is a very long string that"\
   "doesn't fit very well on a single source line"
EOS

It is too hot. My brain seems to be melted...

-- gotoken