Re: RFC 111 (v2) Here Docs Terminators (Was Whitespace and Here Docs)

[Bart Lateur]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:38:42 -0400 (EDT), Eric Roode wrote:

>People may throw rocks at me for this, but I'd like to suggest that
>not only is a comment allowed on the terminator line, but a semicolon
>also be allowed. Vis:
>
>    print <<EOL;
>    EOL;   # This should work, too

Let me throw the first rock. I think this is confusing for the reader of
your code. This looks like a statement, not an end-of-doc marker, so
they'll search for the definition of the sub EOL.

Next you'll propose that

        print <<EOL;
        blah
        EOL; print "OK!\n";

should work too, and print "OK!\n" as well.

OTOH, what about this...

        print <<EOL
        blah
        EOL;

which makes this a full blown statement (note the missing semicolon in
the first line)...

Nah!

-- 
        Bart.