Do you even need these vertical bars in the first place? I never used them that way in my Haml files. According to Haml docs, a pipe character denotes a multi-line string :
%whoo
%hoo= h( |
"I think this might get " + |
"pretty long so I should " + |
"probably make it " + |
"multiline so it doesn't " + |
"look awful.") |
%p This is short.
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