From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-03-17T11:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: why use heredoc in doublequotes?

I don't really understand what you're squeezing is supposed to show, the
double quote is for symetry with the single quote, AFAICT:

irb(main):001:0> f="hi"
"hi"
irb(main):002:0> puts <<TEXT
irb(main):003:0" a  #{f}  
irb(main):004:0" TEXT
a  hi  
nil
irb(main):005:0> puts <<'TEXT'
irb(main):006:0'  a  #{f}
irb(main):007:0' TEXT
a  #{f}
nil

Sam

Quoteing neoneye@adslhome.dk, on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:44:33AM +0900:
> When you can do like this:
> 
> server> ruby a.rb
> "im some text\n"
> server> cat a.rb 
> str = <<TEXT.squeeze("o")
> im soooome text
> TEXT
> p str
> server>
> 
> 
> What is the rationale for doing <<"TEXT"  ?
> 
> Have I misunderstood it?
> 
> --
> Simon Strandgaard
>