Re: Pre-RFC: Require a warning on spaces after here-document "terminator"

[Nathan Wiger]

Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
> 
>     print <<END;
>     The next line contains a space at the end.
>     END
>     This is still a here document
>     END
> 
> This can be very hard to discover. I find it hard to see myself doing
> this on purpose.  

I agree with Larry that Perl should Do The Right Thing, but note that
the command

  :set list

in vi works wonders for finding this. Works great for here strings in
ksh scripts too. :-)

-Nate