Gonna requote it: "When I open a block, I increase [indentation level] by N. When I close a block, I decrease it by N. Continuation line, maybe +2N. I move in and out based on what's happening locally. However, I have no care at all for what the current absolute value of that indentation is. Maybe it's 10, maybe it's 14, whatever; that value is irrelevant to me, it simply emerges from how nested I happen to be."
I'd like to know if anyone is disputing that this is indeed how developers look at indentation. Because if it is, then it's a very general property, which no specific local language feature has ever violated before, and I think this is how we should look at it. On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:00 PM Kevin Bourrillion <kev...@google.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:32 AM Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com> > wrote: > > So I think the question really comes down to: what _is_ a multi-line >> string literal. >> > > I think that question is so abstract and philosophical as to not be > useful. I sent the previous message because I believe it is a better way to > frame the issue. > > -- > Kevin Bourrillion | Java Librarian | Google, Inc. | kev...@google.com > -- Kevin Bourrillion | Java Librarian | Google, Inc. | kev...@google.com
