On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

> It is cool. And you can even do an arbitrary number
> of them:
>
>     mymeth a, <<doc1, b, <<doc2, c, <<doc3, d
>       stuff
>     doc1
>       more
>       stuff
>     doc2
>       still
>       more
>       stuff
>     doc3
>
> Though eventually it's a bit much, I guess.

now, i personally like to know these sorts of things - they do make a language
more interesting and even more fun to write/read.  obfusication is not *all*
bad - maybe the guy who prefers perl is onto something... ;-)


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