SPECS: josm.spec - why people never use 'EOF' instead?

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Thursday 23 April 2009 14:18:12 Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> As they do not remember exact syntax and would have to look it up? ;)
> As it looks uglier? As it needs more characters (two apostrophes instead
> of one backslash)?

because you can then embed the real script (update the spec with it), without 
need to re-escape things (seen too many mistakes in this interpolation 
not-escaping area).

heredoc quick howto:

1. <<EOF
text is interpolated

2. <<'EOF'
text is not interpolated

3. <<-EOF
text is interpolated, leading indent is removed

4. <<-'EOF'
text is not interpolated, leading indent is removed

NOTE: when leading indent is removed (#3 and #4), the closing EOF can be 
indented itself too.

-- 
glen