From: hipster <hipster@...4all.nl>
Date: 2000-11-28T01:04:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6591] Re: Q: refering to a Proc from class_eval

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000  00:45:37 +0900, Aleksi Niemel� wrote:
> > I'm trying to wrap function definitions, and cannot find a way to
> > refer to a block from inside the code I generate and subsequently pass
> > to class_eval:
> 
> Try this, it barks at me :).

Great, thanks! Maybe some more name mangling to prevent inter-object
name clashes and this is it (I'm trying to create statically typed
vars and methods, jus'fer hack-value :)

> > Something completely different: the manual claims that the construct
> > <<-EOF strips all leading whitespace from the here document. It
> > doesn't... (ruby 1.6.1 (2000-09-27) [i686-linux])
> 
> Um.. I'd guess the manual is just misleading. The Book says at page 204-205:
> 
>   You can put a minus sign immediately after the << characters, 
>   in which case the terminator can be indented from the left margin.
> 
> So if I'm not mistaken, it does not give a hint <<-HEREDOC_WITH_MINUS would
> modify the heredoced string in any way. If I recall correctly, there was
> some discussions about autostripping or indentation or something else
> previously at ruby-talk. So please, check the archives for that.

Got it.

	thanks,
	Michel