SPUG:Here documents

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:33:18PM -0700, SPUG-list-owner wrote:
>On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:17:01PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:15:15PM -0700, Brian Hatch wrote:
>> ...
>> >I think I'll just stick with qq( ... ) -- I love '%' in vi,
>> >and that'll mostly do what I need.
>> 
>> That's why my shell scripts have funny comments #{ and #} on things like
>> case and if statements (and python's lack of braces and strange treatment
>> of whitespace is why I stick to perl :-).
>> 
>> Bill
>
>Clever! You've turned the "match braces even within comments" bug
>into a feature!

Yup!

I wish I had the vi editor back when I was writing ALGOL 60 code.  Matching
ALGOL's BEGIN and END statements was a fair PITA.  One of my first text
processing programs was a prettyprinter for ALGOL to re-indent programs
after changing blocks.  Actually vi wouldn't have done any good then since
all the programs were entered either from 80 column punch cards or paper
tape on ASR-33 TeleTypes at 110baud.

Bill
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