From: "Mark J. Reed" <mreed@...>
Date: 2004-05-06T05:29:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Great response! Thanks, Mark

"Richard Lionheart" <NoOne@Nowhere.com> writes:
>I feel somewhat exhonerated of stupidity by noting that that Thomas&Hunt
>discuss Here Documents in two places,  pp. 52. 204,  but a quick reread
>doesn't reveal the nugget you reported ... 

Look on page 204 again:

"If a quoted string was used to specify the terminator, its quoting
rules will be applied to the here-document; otherwise, double-quoting
rules apply."  It doesn't jump out at you, but it's there.  

Incidentally, Ruby borrowed the here-document behavior, complete with
quoting rules, from Perl.  Perl's here-documents were, in turn, inspired by
those of the UNIX shell, which also distinguishes based on the quoting of the
terminator.    The main difference in the shell is that a here document
is treated as the contents of a file fed as input to a command,
rather than as a string specified on the command line.

>Thankfully,  we programmers have the Internet and this NG nowadays!!

Indeed!

-(another) Mark