From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T01:44:22+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345


On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 11:00  AM, 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.

OK...so I have been holding out until now.  This rocks.

+1

-rich