> with rc's regular quoting rules, i was suprised that rc included them.
> i think the language would be better without here documents.

here files are still useful because they don't use
memory proportional to their size, so you
can have a 100MB here file without worrying too much.
that's why they don't work in functions (byron's rc
converted a here file within a function into a "here string"
which basically amounted to {echo string | command}
but with the here file syntax; not much point in that,
save for regularity)

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