On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > I don't mind if it's on by default; just thinking that some people might
> > appreciate a way to turn it off. "-X disable-dollar-quoting" sounds
> > fine.
>
> Does it _have_ to be dollars? Other languages call this feature
> 'heretext' IIRC.
No, but I think the rough consensus was that the behavior of this feature
is different enough from shell and Perl here documents that it deserved a
different name. In particular the $ is part of both the opening and
closing token, and newlines aren't relevant at either the beginning or
end.
Jon
