On Fri, 14 May 1999, Chris Pratt wrote:
> You've got to be kidding, you actually thing that
>
> print <<THEEND
>
> is vastly superior to
>
> out.println("THEEND");
>
> I count eight characters difference, look out carpal tunnel syndrome. =8^)
> (*Chris*)
[ ... ]
Umm, I don't think you quite understand what each of these things
does. To wit, Perl's:
print <<THEEND;
one line
another line
more lines
...
last line
THEEND
is equivalent to Java's:
out.println("one line");
out.println("another line");
out.println("more lines");
...
out.println("last line");
That is, "print <<THEEND" prints everything until a line that contains
"THEEND".
And this doesn't even take into account interpolating variables in the
output, as someone mentioned. The Perl syntax is vastly easier to
write and read. (Note that that may not be the only consideration and
I'm not necessarily saying that Java should have something like this.)
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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