Re: end marker

[rm]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:53:38PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> Brian S McQueen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Is there an equivalent to perls "__END__" for scheme scripting? It is very
> > handy for developing scripts.
> >
> I assume (quit) will do the job in most cases (I don't really know the
> semantics of __END__, just guessing).

Well, __END__ does have some nice/strange/ugly/perlish semantic ;-)
The parser stops reading at '\n__END__' but leaves the filehandle open.
The script itself can then continue reading from this filehandle.

*--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
| #!/usr/barf/perl
| 
| while (<DATA>)
| {
|   print "Data from myself: $_";
| }
| 
| __END__
| 
| This is
| data for the script
| 
*---------------------------------------------------------------------

This can come handy for selfcontained scripts.

 Ralf Mattes



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