From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-06-13T07:15:45+09:00
Subject: Re: src/yaml.y.rb:210: warning: ambiguous first argument; make sure

----- Original Message -----
From: "ahoward" <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: src/yaml.y.rb:210: warning: ambiguous first argument; make sure


> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> i didn't realize you could:
>
>   method <<hdoc, arg1, arg2
>     string
>     stuff
>   hdoc
>
> that's cool.

It is cool. And you can even do an arbitrary number
of them:

    mymeth a, <<doc1, b, <<doc2, c, <<doc3, d
      stuff
    doc1
      more
      stuff
    doc2
      still
      more
      stuff
    doc3

Though eventually it's a bit much, I guess.

> > The '.,.,' is just a creative version of 'END', AFAICT. But it looks
> > like your file has an extra '.' at the beginning of the last line. Did
> > racc put that there?
>
> no.  vim did somehow.  ;-)

As for the .,., -- I thought a here-doc marker
had to be an identifier??

Hal