Re: RFC 111 (v1) Whitespace and Here Docs

[Peter Scott]

At 04:30 PM 8/24/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >I'm coming into this a bit late, so forgive me if this is impossible or
> >already dismissed, but what about
>
> >         print <<qr/\s*FOO\s*/
> >                 Attention, dropsied weasel, we are
> >                 launching our team of legal beagles
> >                 straight for your scrofulous crotch.
>
> >                         xx oo
> >         FOO
>
>Rather than
>
>           print <<FOO =~ /^\s+(.*\n)/g;
>                   Attention, dropsied weasel, we are
>                   launching our team of legal beagles
>                   straight for your scrofulous crotch.
>
>                           xx oo
>           FOO
>
>you mean?

Right; I was proposing new syntax for recognizing the terminator; it would 
not have any effect on the intervening text.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies