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* Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-10-13 22:15]: > What if I'm indenting something that isn't a code block? Who cares? HTML has no generic “indent a block” mechanism, so that the > Not to mention that *all* alternative solutions are *really* > hateful. > > indent << \! > Any non-hateful solution is isomorphic to a "here" document. > ! Since when are heredocs non-hateful? You have the choice between a terminator that does not appear within the verbatim text (the epitome of elegance) or escaping any appearances of the terminator within the verbatim text (the paragon of beauty). At the beginning of a line within a heredoc the parser is in an ambiguous state: what follows may either be another verbatim line or may be a hedoc end marker. If it’s the former but looks like the latter, the parse will disambiguate wrongly, so escaping is required. The solution is to require each line to be prefixed invidually, so the parser can never guess wrongly by design, so that you never have to escape anything. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;There's stuff above here
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