On Jan 25, 5:30 pm, s... / signature.invalid (Douglas Wells) wrote:
> It was installed on my local system (as part of the ports system
> on FreeBSD).  A bit of spelunking shows that it is part of the
> 'ruby-man' port.  A bit more shows that it came as part of a tarball
> named ruby-man-1.4.6.tar.gz, indicating that it might be a bit
> long in the tooth.  Checking the page on my systems, I see that
> it's fairly old, with the corresponding table of contents being
> dated February 1998.
>
> On the other hand, it appears to be the latest "Ruby reference
> manual" that I can find.  A Google search for a "ruby reference
> manual" leads tohttp://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/Manual/man-1.4/syntax.ht...,
> which does contain the quoted text that I posted.

Interesting. Definitely, as we've established, not correct information
for the current version of Ruby.

Is anyone around and listening who is old enough to remember 1.4, and
to know if that is how indented heredoc strings worked back then? (I'm
interested because it's very similar to my RCR, and I'd love to know
the reason that the functionality was abandoned, if it was.)