From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso@...>
Date: 2003-02-06T12:08:07+09:00
Subject: Re: %L, %l revisited

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Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> writes:

> On Wednesday 05 February 2003 02:44 pm, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> 
> well, noting that all my ruby code, and i have a fair amount installed, falls 
> in here  (i don't use usr/local/):
> 
> silver% cd /usr/lib/ruby
> silver% grep -r -e '^.*<<-\w*\s*,.*$' ./

jenny:/project/remacs> grep '<<' *
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :create, <<-HERE, [:destroy, [Memory, :mmap]])
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :destroy, <<-HERE, [:create, [Memory, :mmap]])
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :rename, <<-HERE, :auto_deduce)
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :point, <<-HERE, [:insert, :delete, :append, :point=])
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :point=, <<-HERE, :auto_deduce)
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :insert, <<-HERE, [:delete, :append])
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :delete, <<-HERE, :auto_deduce)
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :append, <<-HERE, :auto_deduce)
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :compact, <<-HERE, [[Memory, :mmap]])
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :locale, <<-HERE, [:encoding, :locale=])
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :locale=, <<-HERE, :auto_deduce)
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :encoding, <<-HERE, :auto_deduce)
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :encoding=, <<-HERE, :auto_deduce)
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :group, <<-HERE, [:create, :destroy, :rename, :group=])
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :group=, <<-HERE, :auto_deduce)
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :region, <<-HERE, :internal)
buffer.rb:    doc(self, :region=, <<-HERE, :internal)
documentation.rb:    (Object, :doc, <<-HERE, nil)
documentation.rb:    (String, :new, <<-HERE, nil)
documentation.rb:    (Kernel, :global_variables, <<-HERE, nil)
documentation.rb:    doc("Module", :class_variables, <<-HERE, nil)

The above result has been edited; results not related to usage of HERE
docs followed by other arguments have been edited out. The doc method
refered throughout has this signature: 
def doc(class, method, content, related_methods); .... end

> that makes 9. (and i note they are all apart of the ruby package itself)
Now it is 21+9=30.

> at least not in Ruby. personally i think here docs a PERLISM,
anyway.  Shell scripting languages already have it before there was
perl. But, I do not know if it originated from sh or something even
more ancient.

YS.
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