From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2003-01-01T17:34:54+09:00
Subject: Re: lstripped here-document (Re: comments and continuing strings on the next line)

nobu.nokada@softhome.net writes:

> A happy new year,
>
> At Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:52:00 +0900,
> Paul Brannan wrote:
>> I do recall one of the apocalypses mentioning a perl rfc that proposed a
>> <<< operator for 'here documents', which would remove whitespace from
>> the 'here document' (at compile-time) that matched the whitespace in
>> front of the terminator.  Doesn't seem like a bad idea for either perl
>> or ruby.
>
> I thought a new syntax like this,
>
>     p <<-|EOS
>       |  foo
>       |    bar
>     EOS
>     # => "  foo\n    bar\n"
>
> That is, a punctuation between << and the terminator, except
> for quotations, directs to strip leading white-spaces till that
> punctuation.  Any line wihtout it results an syntax error.
>
> The patch was posted in [ruby-dev:19261].  Any comments are
> welcome.

I like this, though my biggest problem with << is that the
ruby-mode.el still wants to indent.  If <<-| were understood by
ruby-mode.el, that'd be great.