From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-03-31T16:19:23+09:00
Subject: Re: proposal - delayed intropolation in heredoc


"Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@adslhome.dk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:pan.2004.03.30.20.09.50.501@adslhome.dk...
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:36:46 +0200, Robert Klemme wrote:
> > "Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@adslhome.dk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:pan.2004.03.29.15.49.45.527862@adslhome.dk...
> >> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:38:20 +0200, Robert Klemme wrote:
> >> > "Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@adslhome.dk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> >> > news:pan.2004.03.29.15.12.59.760809@adslhome.dk...
> >> >> yet another crazy proposal from me.. read on, am I crazy?
> >> >
> >> > Without reading on: yes, you are.  But aren't we all?  :-))
> >> >
> >>
> >> I was afraid of that. If you are a genius then its ok to be crazy,
> >> except that I am not a genius, then its not ok ;-)
> >
> > Hey, we can just pretend we're geniusses.  If all are crazy anyway
then
> > nobody'll notice. :-)
> >
>
> I prefer being my self, rather than pretending to be somebody else ;-)

Well, you can be many people at the same time. => MPD  :-)

<snip/>

> >> Good idea as long its spaces. I wonder how tabs can be handled
properly.
> >> Should tabs be converted to 8 spaces?  Should tabs be sliced?
> >
> > I'd just place the general rule that exactly the whitespace that
precedes
> > the terminator is removed from lines inside the here doc, if present.
So
> > if there's a tab in front of the terminator but the lines of the here
doc
> > start with spaces then these are not removed.  Don't you think this is
> > sufficient?
> >
>
> Not sure if I understand your idea on how to deal with tabs.
> I seems kind of kludgy, sorry.

Example (with some special chars shown):

   str =<<FOO
   x
   FOO

yields "x\n"

\tstr=<<FOO
\tx
\tFOO

yields "x\n"

\tstr=<<FOO
        x
\tFOO

yields

"        x\n"

i.e. since the whitespace preceding the "x" is different from the ws
preceding the FOO it is not removed.

    robert