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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?

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- Re:RFC::Prototype::111 (Score:1, Interesting)
  
  by jj (2990)
  
  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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