From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-01-15T10:36:43+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> >     p <<-|EOS
> >       |  foo
> >       |    bar
> >     EOS
> >     # => "  foo\n    bar\n".
[snip]
> Anyway.  I want this functionality so bad I can taste it.

Gavin, maybe I'm missing something but I'm not sure I understand the
usefulness of this.  The only example I can think of where I might like
this is when I have lots of indentation:

def function
    if (condition)
       p <<-|EOH
          |Blah blah blah
          |Blah blah blah
       EOH
    end
end

Is this the purpose of this feature?  Or am I missing something?


Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137