From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-01-17T07:07:00+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:54:36AM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> 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.

Then we need a new syntax... I don't quite like the following but it's
the best I can think of right now: 
 s = <<<"|"
	 |Hello, #{interpolated}
 s2 = <<<'|'
	  | not interpolated!
 
> > 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.

If we take over the world we could have a special keyboard for coding in
Ruby ;-)

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