From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-03-18T18:09:32+09:00
Subject: Re: why use heredoc in doublequotes?


"Mark Hubbart" <discord@mac.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:C3ED58B4-783A-11D8-90E1-000502FDD5CC@mac.com...
>
> On Mar 17, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:18:30 -0700, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> > [snip]
> >>   ~/eg/ruby > cat heredoc.rb
> >>   s = 'foobar'
> >>
> >>   p <<"<<"
> >>     #{ s }
> >>   <<
> >>
> >>   ~/eg/ruby > ruby heredoc.rb
> >>   "  foobar\n"
> >>
> >
> > I bet this can be useful for making an obscure compact quine.
> >
> > ;-)
>
> Since Ruby doesn't care what you use as delimiters, usually...
>
>    >> %q delimited_with_spaces .inspect.display
>    "delimited_with_spaces"=>nil
>    >> %q      delimited with plain 'ol tabs   .inspect.display
>    "delimited with plain 'ol tabs"=>nil
>    >> %q
>    ?> and with newlines?!?
>    ?> .inspect.display
>    "and with newlines?!?"=>nil
>    >>%q^Hbackspaces are stranger yet^H.inspect.display
>    "backspaces are stranger yet"=>nil
>    >>%q^CBut the interrupt character really takes the
> cake^C.inspect.display
>    "But the interrupt character really takes the cake"=>nil
>
> I beg you, though -- *please* don't take advantage of the fact that you
> can delimit strings with interrupts!!! ;)

This thread goes down the dark side of Ruby... *schudder*
:-)

    robert