From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T01:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345

Dave Thomas wrote:
> Matt Armstrong wrote:
> 
>> I just though, why not "<<|FOO".  In other words, the '-' in there
>> doesn't serve much purpose.
>>
>> s = <<|FOO
>>       |this
>>       | is
>>       |  my
>>       |   text
>>       FOO
>>
>>
> 
> In fact, neither does the 'FOO'
> 
>    s  = <<|Now is the time
>           | For all good men
>           |    to code Ruby
>    p s.length
> 
> So any line that _doesn't_ start with the given delimiter (ignoring 
> leading whitespace) ends the string.

Of course, then you lose being able to use FOO in an expression

irb(main):001:0> s = <<FOO + 'bar'
irb(main):002:0"   foo
irb(main):003:0" FOO
"  foo\nbar"

But I never used that much anyway. If I had to choose between this and 
Dave's suggestion, I'd choose the latter. It's very clear.