Re: nowdocs again

Stefan Walk: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 20:52:40 Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > > I don't think the 'FOO' syntax is very obvious either, but I > > > can't think > > > of a better one and if there isn't a commonly known syntax we can steal > > > from another language, then making up our own, no matter what it is, is > > > > We can steal from perl, which has exactly 'FOO' ;) > > Ruby has, too (stolen from perl ;)) The syntax pre-dates Perl by many years. Citing from "An Introduction to the Unix Shell" from S.R. Bourne, which was part of the UNIX Seventh edition manual from 1978: << word The standard input is taken from the lines of shell input that follow up to but not including a line consisting only of word. If word is quoted then no interpretation of the document occurs. If word is not quoted then parameter and command substitution occur and \ is used to quote the characters \ $ ` and the first character of word. In the latter case \newline is ignored (c.f. quoted strings). Unfortunately the bell-labs.com sites are gone, but there are many copies on-line. I found one at http://partmaps.org/era/unix/shell.html Wietse