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Weird Ruby: Heredoc Delimiters
Remember how I thought that the syntax for single-quoted heredocs was weird? I’ve got something even weirder for you today! Turns out that when using single-quoted heredoc delimiters you can have pretty much anything in them, including spaces! <<'END HTML' <html> ... </html> END HTML <<'\n!"£$%^&*()-=_+[];#{}:@~,./<>?|`\' hello \n!"£$%^&*()-=_+[];#{}:@~,./<>?|`\ It never crossed my mind that something like this would be possible until I came across this RuboCop ticket, asking for space...