On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 06:38:37PM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> 1) << removes whitespace equivalent to the terminator (e) this is largely
> backward complatible as many existing heredocs are unlikely to have white
> space before the terminator.
>
> 2) <<< removes whitespace equivalent to the smallest whitespace (d)
>
> or are these the options that will satisfy everybody [no but its worth a try]
>
> 1) << Does just what it does now
>
> 2) <<< implements (d) or (e)
I'd say:
1) << does what it does now mod RFC 111 (ie. you can put whitespace in the
terminator, but it doesn't effect anything)
2) <<< does (e).
3) distribute a collection of dequote() mutations with perl.
4) mention the s/// tricks in the documentation (<<POD =~ s/// seems dead)
(d) can always be implemented as a simple Perl function (one of the
many dequote() mutations), (e) cannot.
I think that'll make everyone happy.
> [[there is still the tabs debate however]]
Tabs are easy, don't expand them. Consider them as a literal
character. This assums that the code author is going to use the same
keystrokes to indent their here-doc text as the terminator, about as
safe an assumption as any for tabs.
Maybe I'm being too simplistic, I don't use tabs anymore.
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