From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-01-17T02:35:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345

Hi,

At Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:52:38 +0900,
Dave Thomas wrote:
> >>Btw, as Dave suggested, can we takeoff the EOS part? Or maybe we combine
> >>both such that the ff is possible:
> >>
> >>   s1 = <<|EOS
> >>          |#{hi}
> >>        I do not have the indenter
> >>          |  how are you?
> >>    me, too.. but ruby takes care of me :-)
> >>   EOS
> > Well, I don't like it very much... it may mislead me sometimes.
> 
> For what it's worth, I don't like this much either. But I still think
> there's some merit in
> 
>    s = <<|Hello
>          |World
> 
> I often use inline, multi-line strings, and being able to set a margin
> for them would be quite useful.

It looks nice, and once I got inclined to it.  But now we have
3 types of string literals, with string interpolation as
doublequote, without it as singlequote, and command
substitution as backquote.  I wonder which it corresponds to.

-- 
Nobu Nakada