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From:
Ricardo Signes
Date:
July 6, 2016 19:00
Subject:
Re: Indented here docs?
Message ID:
20160706190002.GA23298@debian
* Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> [2016-07-06T14:35:11]
> What I mean is that if I were a customer who had been ignoring deprecation
> warnings for years, it would be better for me and my customers to have a
> release where it dies instead of having it  silently mean something else.
> 
> It appears that this is not a concern for this construct if we use tilde, as
> I understand it is already illegal.

It needn't *silently* mean something else.  If an indented_heredoc feature
exists, then <<- or <<~ can be fatal without the feature, and you must turn the
feature on to get the new behavior.

-- 
rjbs

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