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From:
David Nicol
Date:
August 4, 2016 04:39
Subject:
Re: Indented here docs?
Message ID:
CAFwScO8L0gT==3Ukm2vXq0URyOtWAiRwrtUV33n5jQ2NX=SG_w@mail.gmail.com
I too think we should keep the initially proposed "<<~" syntax.
I would also like to again relate that I went for several years
thinking the warning I got when I attempted something like
print << BAREWORD;
yabba dabba
BAREWORD
was telling me that it was using a bareword there that was deprecated,
rather than the space between the << and the delimiter. I always fixed
these things by putting quotes around the bareword, which worked
perfectly, as having put the quote there I no longer required any
space for visual normalcy, and remained oblivious to what was actually
happening.
It was only when I took it upon myself to submit a patch here that
would ** ALLOW SPACE BETWEEN THE << AND THE DELIMITER ** that I
discovered my error.
That patch only had effect on code where prefix << made sense, and
essentially did
s/<<\s+([\w'"`\\])/<<$1/
there.
Uses such as << ; were not effected.
--
"It's like a whole other country."
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