Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 27 Aug 2000 19:23:51 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>
> >Further it should ignore any whitespace (and comments) that follow the
> >terminator.
>
> > All of these should work:
>
> > print <<EOL ;
> >EOL # this is the end of the here doc
>
> But currently, I like using:
>
> print <<"#EOT#2";
> blah blah blah
> #EOT#2
>
Well, this would still be well-defined according to my reading of the
RFC. To parse <<"#EOT#2", the lexer (or whatever part of Perl it is)
has to scan the input stream until it encounters the stream "#EOT#2";
whitespace may appear before it on the line, and it may be followed by
more whitespace and comments. So even this should work:
print <<"#EOT#2";
This is a line of text.
# This isn't a comment; it's part of the here-document!
#EOT#2#This is a comment
I'm not sure if this is a good idea. However, bear in mind that if
you want a comment on the end-of-here-document line, you probably
aren't going to add more `#' characters to it.
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