Certainly I could live with this set of suggestions. The complete set. Thanks
Richard and Michael for developing them.
Michael G Schwern wrote:
> 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.
--
Glenn
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