From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-01-17T07:16:01+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:08:45AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> 
> 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

It breaks the current here-doc:
 s = <<'EOF'
   bla
 EOF

 s = <<'|'
   bla
 |
 # this is legal now but would no longer work.
 
This is why I thought of '<<<'...

> 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.

No matter what, it seems here-docs would become more complex and I don't
think matz will finally make it.

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