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Re: Why do here-docs have to end with a newline, not EOF?

by ambrus (Abbot)
on May 12, 2008 at 18:18 UTC ( [id://686123]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Why do here-docs have to end with a newline, not EOF?

If an end of file instead of a newline would be allowed, then you could write (non-empty) perl quine in just 22 bytes. I suppose the developpers didn't want to tale the blame for adding one more language feature just for obfus.

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