From: Thomas Fini Hansen <beast@...>
Date: 2004-03-13T23:40:54+09:00
Subject: Re: long string arguments

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 09:21:27PM +0900, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I would like to redirect large chunks of text to a specific
> resource (file, stderr, etc). I thought that the code below
> would do my job:
> 
> def |>(s)
>     myputs %Q|#{s}
> end
> 
> def <|
>     |
> end

Well, that doesn't work for a number of reasons. For starters it
should basically quote "\nend\n...". And I don't think <| and |> are
valid names...
 
> in a similar to eruby fashion, ie:
> 
>     |>
>     I don't know much, but I guess
>     #{42} is a special number.
>     <|

eRuby basically replace "%>anything<%" with "puts
'anything'". Everything else is left as is.

> Unfortunately, I get a syntax error. Any hints?

Depends on what you're trying to do. If you just want chucks of text
in your code:

puts <<EOF
something here...
EOF

If you want eRuby behaviour.. Why not just use eRuby? I've used it as
templating for emails.

-- 
Thomas
beast@system-tnt.dk