From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-01-17T06:54:36+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345

Hi,

At Fri, 17 Jan 2003 06:32:48 +0900,
Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> We can impose a different character for each type:
> s = <<|Hello
>       |I am #{interpoladed}
> s2 = <<.I
>        .am
>        .not interpolated!

We can, but it'll enforce to remember magical relation, whereas
quotations surrounding here-doc marker look more obvious, to me
at least.

> BTW, how accesible is '|' in keyboards around the world? In Spanish ones
> you need AltGR and the 2 keys are quite far away... OTOH I think it was
> a single keypress in German keyboards (will check tomorrow).

It needs SHIFT and 1 key in Japanese 106/109 keyboard and same
in English 101/104.

-- 
Nobu Nakada