From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-02-06T05:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: %L, %l revisited

Hi --

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> On Monday 03 February 2003 09:02 am, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> > I meant:
> >
> > 	puts <<-EOS, "and more"
> >                 this is
> >                 come
> >                 text
> > 	EOS
> >
> > or
> >
> > 	puts %Q{
> >                 this is
> >                 come
> >                 text
> > 	}, "and more"
> >
> > are possible, but
> >
> > 	puts %l|this is
> > 	       |come
> > 	       |text
> >
> > 	, "and more"
>
> besides the fact the you'd never do two literal strings together like this
> (one at least would be a variable) i have never used , (but i could see for
> << which i have used.)

I wouldn't say never.  puts "one", "two" can be handy since it prints
each literal on a separate line; you don't have to do multiple puts's
or embed \n's explicitly.


David

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