Bug #11989
Updated by whitequark (whitequark *) almost 9 years ago
It is clear that the dedenting <<~HEREDOC feature was intended to only consider actual whitespace in the source file as indentation, not any escaped whitespace. E.g.:
~~~
p <<~"E"
\ x
y
E
~~~
It prints `" x\n y\n"`. So `"\ "` "\ " does not count as whitespace. There is even an MRI test for this.
However, this case is handled differently:
~~~
p <<~"E"
x\n y
E
~~~
It prints `"x\n y\n"`. So `"\n"` is counted as whitespace, like an actual newline would be. I think it should print `"x\n y\n"`.