Re: Squiggly heredoc - new feature request

[Chris Elvidge]

On 30/08/2021 09:28 pm, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:06:37PM +0200, Přemysl Šťastný wrote:
> > I think, it would be nice, if you implemented Squiggly heredoc, which solves
> > this problem by ignoring both leading spaces and leading tabs. eg.
> >
> > func()(
> >    cat <<~ EOF
> >      blabla
> >    EOF
> > )
>
> This would break backward compatibility and POSIX compliance.
>
> I'm sure there are real life scripts that have leading spaces in their
> here-doc payloads which should be preserved.

Yes there are.

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Chris Elvidge
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