Re: RFC 162 (v1) Filtering Here Docs

2000-08-29 Thread David L. Nicol
Richard Proctor wrote: > > This leads back to my original "remove all whitespace". Somehow there is a > compromise to extracted from this. Have we explored using a subset of regex for end-markers? $long_string_possibly_indented_later = <<\w*##ENDEND##\w*; .

Re: RFC 162 (v1) Filtering Here Docs

2000-08-29 Thread Philip Newton
On 27 Aug 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > With a here doc print <

Re: RFC 162 (v1) Filtering Here Docs

2000-08-28 Thread Richard Proctor
On Mon 28 Aug, Bart Lateur wrote: > On 27 Aug 2000 19:23:51 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > > >It only removes whitespace, > >and it measures whitespace with tabs=8. > > My editor is set to tabs=4. Perl's interpretation wouldn't agree with > the visual appearance in my editor. This doesn't s

Re: RFC 162 (v1) Filtering Here Docs

2000-08-28 Thread Bart Lateur
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:11:39 -0400, David Corbin wrote: >Why not make the details of this controlled by a pragma? TMFP Too Many Pragma's. We're trying to write ONE language here, not 150. Depending on what pragmas you're used to, you can no longer read, er, understand, other people's c

Re: RFC 162 (v1) Filtering Here Docs

2000-08-28 Thread Tom Christiansen
>On 27 Aug 2000 19:23:51 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: >>It only removes whitespace, >>and it measures whitespace with tabs=8. >My editor is set to tabs=4. So don't do that. :set sw=4 ts=8. I am confident that were Dante were writing now, he'd reserve a special pit of Hell for those who

Re: RFC 162 (v1) Filtering Here Docs

2000-08-28 Thread David Corbin
Bart Lateur wrote: > > On 27 Aug 2000 19:23:51 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > > >It only removes whitespace, > >and it measures whitespace with tabs=8. > > My editor is set to tabs=4. Perl's interpretation wouldn't agree with > the visual appearance in my editor. This doesn't sound like a

Re: RFC 162 (v1) Filtering Here Docs

2000-08-28 Thread Bart Lateur
On 27 Aug 2000 19:23:51 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: >It only removes whitespace, >and it measures whitespace with tabs=8. My editor is set to tabs=4. Perl's interpretation wouldn't agree with the visual appearance in my editor. This doesn't sound like a neat solution. Why not disallow mer

RFC 162 (v1) Filtering Here Docs

2000-08-27 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Filtering Here Docs =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Richard Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 27 Aug 2000 Version: 1 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 162 =head1 A