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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: here documents
Message-ID: <7206@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 1 Aug 90 03:59:48 GMT
References: <7192@star.cs.vu.nl> <1990Jul31.013220.3903@iwarp.intel.com>
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In article <1990Jul31.013220.3903@iwarp.intel.com>,
	merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
)In article <7192@star.cs.vu.nl>, maart@cs (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
					^^
					Something needs fixing, Randal.

You provided another _workaround_, Randal.  Furthermore just like my
`&here' solution it involved _run-time_ processing of the here-document,
whereas IMHO the final string (modulo variable substitutions etc.) should
be found at _compile-time_.
Therefore my request still stands:

)| How about adding a `<<-' here document operator, which strips leading
)| tabs and spaces off the lines forming the document?  (And the line
)| trailing the document.)  Current practice in sh.  Preserves indentation
)| in the script.  [...]
)...
)| 	print &here(<<"	EOF");

Now why doesn't the following work as intended?

	print &here(<<"\tEOF");
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