Control: forwarded -1 https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133746
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 01:06:54PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 23:04:50 +0000 > Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li> wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:17:47PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > perlfaq4 has a question "Why don't my <<HERE documents work?", and much > > > of the answer deals with ways to write indented here documents. These > > > are largely kludges, however, and the faq should really mention the ~ > > > modifier (desribed in perlop), which was introduced precisely in order > > > to provide a clean way to do this. > > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for pointing this out. Would you be able to contribute > > a suggested text (either as a diff, or otherwise) for this that > > we can forward upstream? > > Sorry for the delay - Gmail has been leaving some of my Debian mail in > the spam folder lately. > > I'm not sure that I feel comfortable making significant revisions to > the whole FAQ answer - I'm not much of a Perl guru - so I'm just going > to supply a paragraph that can be added to the end of "Why don't my > <<HERE documents work?" in perlfaq4 to note the new way of doing this > in recent Perl: > > ------ > Beginning with Perl version 5.26, a much simpler and cleaner way to > write indented here documents has been added to the language: the tilde > (~) modifier. See "Indented Here-docs" in perlop for details. > ----- Thanks, I've forwarded this upstream! Best, Dominic.