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'ere I am, J.M.! The ghost in the machine:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install jmcnamara & _ x ord $ ;' | tail -1

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Friday August 08, 2003
05:37 PM

There-doc

[ #14007 ]
there-doc (n): an indented here-doc.

    if ($greeting) {

        print << 'EOT';
        hello, world
        EOT

    }

There's no here here.


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  • RFC::Prototype::111 (Score:5, Interesting)

    by schwern (1528) on 2003.08.08 19:59 (#22922) Homepage Journal
    See also RFC::Prototype::111 [pobox.com] from back in the initial Perl 6 days. Specificly RFC::Prototype::111. It would be nice if feature #2 was implemented, ie. here-docs not being so sensitive about trailing whitespace in the terminator. PS Would using "code" instead of "executable" for your filter solve the problem of filtering inside strings?
    • Thanks for the suggestions, I'll have a read of RFC111 and add that feature in the next version.

      I did try using "code" in the filter when I was first writing the module, however because "code" removes here documents (see &Text::Balanced::extract_quotelike) it doesn't see the terminator strings until the indenting has been removed. Bit of a chicken and egg situation! What I'll try next is to run Text::Balanced over the current line (when a << has been seen) to identify if the << is part of a
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