Re: Drop here docs altogether? (was Re: RFC 111 (v3) Here Docs Terminators (Was Whitespace and Here Docs))

[Michael G Schwern]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:30:15PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Y'know, I pointed out before why I think this is a superfluous issue.
> You have to either change your regexp, or change the indentation of your
> here docs terminator when you move your code around. 

I think it would be best for us to just agree to disagree on this one
and leave it up to a Higher Power to make the decision.


> Plus how to address the whole can of worms with tabs -> spaces, 4 or 8,
> trailing too, blank line stripping? Blech. regex.

I was planning on simply treating tabs as tabs, ignoring expansion
issues.  Thus if an end-tag was lead off by "\t EOF" it would strip
exectly "\t " off the front.  Any solution: indented tag, regex,
dequote... all have the same problems with tabs.  They cause more
problems than they're worth, you shouldn't be using them anyway. ;)


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