On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Brad King <brad.k...@kitware.com> wrote:
> On 10/13/2013 6:03 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > >> * New quoting syntax: Lua-style long-brackets. Quoting opens with > >> "[" followed by zero or more "=" followed by "[" and closes with > >> "]" followed by the same number of "=" followed by "]". > > What's the purpose of the "=" between the square brackets ? > > One can choose a unique number of "=" to match an opening and closing > bracket so that the closing bracket is known not to appear in the > enclosed content. This avoids the need for any escaping even when > closing brackets other lengths appear in the content. > > This is commonly known as "here document" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_document -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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