heredocs in perl and ruby

gistfile1.sh

rv@v:~$ perl -e "print <<'...';
hello
  world
...
"
hello
  world
rv@v:~$ ruby -e "puts <<'...'                                                             
hello
  world
...
"
hello
  world


# I have used heredocs in perl and ruby before, but I didn't know you can 
# add the quotes and semi-colon  in the first list and make it work
# have to see how emacs highlights the code

ruby mode got a much better highlighting than perl-mode. shoot.