Re: Multi-line string extension

Larry Wall (lwall@netlabs.com)
Mon, 18 Apr 1994 20:22:16 GMT

In article <9404180822.AA00882=guido@voorn.cwi.nl> Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl writes:
: My problem with Perl-style 'here' documents remains that it is a very
: un-Python-like piece of syntax (how's that for an emotional argument:)
: and that I can't think of an "intuitive" operator, since << is already
: taken for left shift.

Depends on how far you're willing to stretch for "intuitive", I guess.
Perl uses << for left shift too. :-)

Larry