From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-15T10:22:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345

On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 4:31:22 AM, Kazuo wrote:

> [ruby-dev:19261] lstripped here-document

>  Nobu Nakada proposed the idea for a new here-document style inspired by
>  [ruby-talk:50473]. In his idea, if you assign a character (except
>  quotes) after the here-document indicator "<<-", All blanks and
>  assigned character at the head of each line will be deleted.
>  Here is a example assigning '|':

>     p <<-|EOS
>       |  foo
>       |    bar
>     EOS
>     # => "  foo\n    bar\n".

>  He already posted a patch to add this function.  Matz wants any
>  comments for the idea from all Rubyists.


Well, if he wants comments from *all* Rubyists, ... that's a lot of
comments.

Anyway.  I want this functionality so bad I can taste it.

The Perl6 idea is interesting, and on the face of simpler.  But the
idea above is quite elegant and pretty, and with a good editor, easy
to edit.

Gavin