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C:\>perl -
print 'foo' =~ <</END/;
foo
END
^Z
Can't find string terminator "" anywhere before EOF at - line 1.
C:\>perl -v
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall
Binary build 633 provided by ActiveState Corp.
http://www.ActiveState.com
Built 21:33:05 Jun 17 2002
Why aren't regex heredocs allowed? They would seem to be a convenient
way to match against a large pattern.
--Brent Dax <brentdax@cpan.org>
@roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure)
>How do you "test" this 'God' to "prove" it is who it says it is?
"If you're God, you know exactly what it would take to convince me. Do
that."
--Marc Fleury on alt.atheism
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