Re: [9fans] rc here docs

[rog@vitanuova.com]

the main advantage of here documents as far as i can see is a
syntactic one; it's nicer to see:

cat << EOF
don't care about ' marks.
$home is where the heart is.
EOF

than its near-equivalent:

echo 'don't care about '' marks.
'^$"home^' is where the heart is.' | cat

particularly when you've got lots of text as a template.  balancing
single quotes is very easy to get wrong.

i do sometime regret the lack of here documents in the inferno shell
for that reason (although actually putting them into /tmp seems a
little archaic)

i wonder if there might be room for a "here word" i.e.  something that
is equivalent to a word, but looks syntactically something like a here
document.  dunno what the syntax would look like though.