Hi,
In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 19198-19345"
on 03/01/15, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair / soyabean.com.au> writes:
|Why are you not convinced, Matz? YAGNI? Or implementation difficulty?
|I think it's a very good solution to a very real problem. The problem
|is only aesthetic, but no less real for that.
Nobu already made a patch to implement it. I feel like it can make
programs more cryptic. "<<-|FOO"?? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Other heredoc notations follow shell convention, so that there's
nothing new in syntax. One of Ruby's secret is to be slow to merge
new syntax.
matz.