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Karl Williamson
Date:
July 6, 2016 19:07
Subject:
Re: Indented here docs?
Message ID:
577D56DB.0@khwilliamson.com
On 07/06/2016 01:00 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * 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.
>

Agreed

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