On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 01:21:42AM -0800, Wesley Smith wrote:
> > most notable thing I did recently (besides some fiddling with getting a new
> > JIT written), was adding a syntax for block-strings. I used <[[ ... ]]>
> > rather than triple-quotes (like in Python), mostly as this syntax is more
> > friendly to nesting, and is also fairly unlikely to appear by accident, and
> > couldn't come up with much "obviously better" at the moment, "<{{ ... }}>"
> > was another considered option (but is IIRC already used for something), as
> > was the option of just using triple-quote (would work, but isn't readily
> > nestable).
>
>
> You should have a look at Lua's long string syntax if you haven't already:
>
Better to be consistent with rest of scripting languages(bash,ruby,perl,python)
and use heredocs.
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