Issue #9098 has been updated by sikachu (Prem Sichanugrist). Oh, that's an awesome suggestion, @avdi. I like it. That way, it wouldn't be introducing backward incompatibility. Maybe we can target next minor (since it's a new feature) as well? @drbrain, so I think I'll want to change this ticket to be adding `<<~` to do this functionality instead. Should I go ahead and try to implement it, or do I have to wait for @matz to +1? ---------------------------------------- Feature #9098: Indent heredoc against the left margin by default when "indented closing identifier" is turned on. https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9098#change-42920 Author: sikachu (Prem Sichanugrist) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: syntax Target version: Next Major tl;dr: I would like to port +String#strip_heredoc+ (http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/String.html#method-i-strip_heredoc) from Rails and enable it on `<<-` heredoc. Hi, I've been using here document (heredoc) for a while, and I've found out that it's very annoying that the content is always treated as flushed left. Per syntax doc: Note that the while the closing identifier may be indented, the content is always treated as if it is flush left. If you indent the content those spaces will appear in the output. So, this is the current result if you use heredoc in Ruby: class FancyHello def self.hello puts <<-README.inspect Hello World! README end end FancyHello.hello # => " Hello\n World!\n" In Rails, the core team has implemented +String#strip_heredoc+, which handles this scenario by remove leading white spaces from the string. However, not many user know that Rails has that method, and instead doing this to get around it: class FancyHello def self.hello puts <<-README.inspect Hello World! README end end FancyHello.hello # => "Hello\n World!\n" I really think that we could do better on this by removing the leading white spaces, matching +String#strip_heredoc+ method. So, after the change, I want to be able to do this, and get this result: class FancyHello def self.hello puts <<-README.inspect Hello World! README end end FancyHello.hello # => "Hello\n World!\n" Note: the behavior on `<<HEREDOC` will stay the same, as I feel like in that case you really want the input to be flushed left. I'll write up a patch and submit it if you think this is a good idea. Please let me know any question or concern you may have. Thank you, Prem -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/