From: "Martin Dürst" Date: 2011-09-23T10:38:39+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:39679] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5352] How about using <> to represent Here Document? Issue #5352 has been updated by Martin D��rst. If anything is done in this direction, I'd prefer str = <>SECT1.upcase + <>SECT2.downcase over str = .upcase + .downcase It seems to stick out much better. ---------------------------------------- Feature #5352: How about using <> to represent Here Document? http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5352 Author: Joey Zhou Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: "<<" is a frequently used method in text manipulation. Meanwhile, it's also the beginning token of a here-document. Sometimes it may be confusing to newbies. Unlike Perl, in which "<>" is a very very frequently used operator to read lines from a filehandle, in Ruby, "<>" has no meaning. So I think it can be used to represent Here Document, so as to reduce the possibility of misunderstanding method "<<" and here-document token "<<". And In my opinion, <> is more clear than <<, because it looks like kind of brackets. For example, str = .upcase + .downcase aaaaaa SECT1 XXXXXX SECT2 may be clearer than: str = <