Empty lines in indented heredoc ruins the experience
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Description
When an indented heredoc contains an empty line, modern editors strip off all trailing whitespace, which then leaves all the leading whitespaces in.
Example:
```hcl
item = <<-EOF
foo
bar
EOF
```
### Expected behavior
It should act like `item = "foo\n\nbar\n"`
### Actual behavior
It acts like `item = " foo\n\n bar\n"`
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the indented heredoc example from the issue, including the empty line, and inspect the heredoc parsing path in the HCL repository. Done means the example evaluates like "foo\n\nbar\n" rather than retaining indentation after the empty line; add or update coverage for this case.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100