Bug#915366: perlfaq4: the section on indented here documents should mention the ~ modifier

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Thu Dec 6 23:04:50 GMT 2018


On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:17:47PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> perlfaq4 has a question "Why don't my <<HERE documents work?", and much
> of the answer deals with ways to write indented here documents. These
> are largely kludges, however, and the faq should really mention the ~
> modifier (desribed in perlop), which was introduced precisely in order
> to provide a clean way to do this.

Hi,

Thanks for pointing this out. Would you be able to contribute
a suggested text (either as a diff, or otherwise) for this that
we can forward upstream?

Cheers,
Dominic.




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