From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-02-06T05:19:59+09:00
Subject: Re: %L, %l revisited

Hi --

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> Nobu,
>
> honestly, those extra features of HERE docs to which you refer are hardly ever
> used.
>
> for instance i would never do this.
>
> >         puts <<-EOS, "and more"
> >                 this is
> >                 come
> >                 text
> >         EOS
>
> it's shoddy.

It's neither shoddy, nor "extra" :-)  It's just how here-docs work.

I think Nobu's point is that all existing quotation mechanisms can
be dropped into the pattern:

  quote_1, quote_2, quote_3, ... , quote_n

without regard to order, and that the %L one would be the one and
only exception to this, therefore an anomaly.


David

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