ruby-dev summary 21637-21729

[Gavin Sinclair]

Is the syntax error because of the first line or because of the second?
I ask because I do this a lot in my code:

s = "this is a string " \
"that I have chosen to break " \
"into multiple lines

I would be happy to switch to using heredocs if there were an easy way
to indent heredocs.

require 'extensions/all' # http://extensions.rubyforge.org

s = %{
| this is a string
| that I have chosen to break
| into multiple lines
}.trim('|')

# or

s = %{
this is a string
that I have chosen to break
into multiple lines
}.trim.tabto(0)

That would produce a three-line string, unlike your example, but you
mention indenting heredocs, so there you go.

Cheers,
Gavin