On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:07:41PM -0500, Will Coleda wrote: > On Dec 12, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > >So I guess we just need a robust multi-line quoting convention (to > >pass multiple lines of code to macros). > > That sounds suspiciously like a HEREDOC. > > See: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=37600, which was > marked as rejected.
That's worth reconsidering. I still think heredocs were a botch for Perl, which is generally not line-oriented. But PIR is definitely line-oriented, so it's not quite as much of a botch there. -- Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>