From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T14:08:58+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345

On Thursday, January 16, 2003, 3:19:13 PM, Tom wrote:

> currently i generally just use %Q{...} instead of here docs.

> p %Q{
>   foo
>     bar
> }

I think I might start using that more often.  It's nice, and it's
easier to chain.  e.g. with an appropriate String#tabto(n) method (a
la StringFormattingFunctions on the Wiki), you can resolve the
indentation like so:

   s = %Q{
     hi
       how are you?
   }.tabto(0)

Which gives "\nhi\n  how are you?\n".  That code would highlight fine,
whereas using here-docs can sometimes be troublesome.

One difference between this and a here-doc is the initial newline,
which is a shame.

Gavin