>>>>> "JC" == Juergen Christoffel <Mac.Christoffel@gmd.de> writes: JC> Finally, it is my opinion that here documents should be deprecated in the JC> next version, because one can easily accomplish the same with generalized JC> quoting which is less troublesome syntactically. print <<TIMTOWTDI; No, way. Here docs are just too useful. Especially for _very_ long textual areas. I'm especially fond of them when working with Sql when I don't want to bother with a stored procedure. Think of it as another quoting mechanism. As the saying goes: TIMTOWTDI <chaim> -- Chaim Frenkel Nonlinear Knowledge, Inc. chaimf@cris.com +1-718-236-0183 ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch