From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-17T07:08:45+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345

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To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345


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.

OK, I suggest an adaptation of the ordinary
here-document syntax.

This is current behavior, no?
  <<EOF   # interpolated
  <<'EOF' # non-interpolated

Then let's have
  <<|     # interpolated
  <<'|'   # non-interpolated

I'm trying to remember how the hyphen and
quote interact... is it -'EOF' or '-EOF'?
Or maybe neither?

Simple things quickly become complex,
don't they? Welcome to the universe.

Hal