Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/25/2014 7:00 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>
> I am not familiar with the term "herdoc".  After a quick google, it
> looks like it refers to a way of escaping the language.  Is this not
> something that a single-quoted string couldn't handle? You would still
> need to escape single-quotes and back-slashes, but it comes close.
> However, I wouldn't be against adding a special character sequence to
> support this (Maybe '<<' or something).
>

Heredoc is just a raw string that doesn't choke on embedded newlines.

And often the "end of string" delimiter is customizable so you don't 
have to worry about escaping the quotes or anything.