Re: RFC 111 (v1) Whitespace and Here Docs

[Philip Newton]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Michael Fowler wrote:

> So what's insufficient about:
> 
>     print <<"    EOF";
>         Stuff
>         More stuff
>         Even more stuff
>     EOF

Others have already mentioned the "have to count the number of spaces"
argument. Another one that comes to mind is: assume the above is inside a
350-line block. Now I want to put an if($foo==$bar) { ... } around that
block. To make the inner block look nice, I >% in vi -- shift the whole
block over by one indent (a tab, two spaces, whatever). Presto, the thing
stops working. I think the above method (having to add your own spaces, in
the exact number required at the moment) is too fragile.

Cheers,
Philip
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