On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 23:04:50 +0000 Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:17:47PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > perlfaq4 has a question "Why don't my <<HERE documents work?", and much > > of the answer deals with ways to write indented here documents. These > > are largely kludges, however, and the faq should really mention the ~ > > modifier (desribed in perlop), which was introduced precisely in order > > to provide a clean way to do this. > > Hi, > > Thanks for pointing this out. Would you be able to contribute > a suggested text (either as a diff, or otherwise) for this that > we can forward upstream? Sorry for the delay - Gmail has been leaving some of my Debian mail in the spam folder lately. I'm not sure that I feel comfortable making significant revisions to the whole FAQ answer - I'm not much of a Perl guru - so I'm just going to supply a paragraph that can be added to the end of "Why don't my <<HERE documents work?" in perlfaq4 to note the new way of doing this in recent Perl: ------ Beginning with Perl version 5.26, a much simpler and cleaner way to write indented here documents has been added to the language: the tilde (~) modifier. See "Indented Here-docs" in perlop for details. ----- > Cheers, > Dominic. Thanks, Celejar
