> On Apr 22, 2019, at 1:04 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 4/22/2019 11:26 AM, Jim Laskey wrote:
>>
>> 2. long count = lines().count();
>> if (count == 1) {
>> return strip();
>> }
>>
>> Single line strings (no line terminators) are simply stripped.
>>
>> """ single line """ ==> "single line"
>
> I think we should reconsider this one. The interpretation we settled on is:
> we're willing to treat a multi-line string as being a sequence of lines, not
> just of characters, and we're willing to strip incidental whitespace that
> arises from accidents of how the string is embedded in the program. But a
> single-line string doesn't have any of that; I think it should be left alone,
> regardless of quotes.
Why didn't they write as single quote string in the first place? Having a """
removing incidentals works in our favour for examples like;
""""in quotes"""" vs """ "in quotes" """
>
>>
>> 3. int outdent = lines().skip(1) ...
>>
>> Ignoring first line, determine least number of leading whitespaces for all
>> non-blank lines.
>>
>> String s = """
>> ................line 1..
>> ....................line 2.
>> """; ==> 16
>
> I think we should reconsider whether a non-blank first line means that we
> should consider any indentation on the first line too. This has the
> likely-beneficial side-effect that having a non-blank character immediately
> following the """ effectively means "no stripping."
Not sure this is a workable perspective. Opting out this way forces the user
into some weird configurations that they have to unmangle to get a useful
result.
String s = """opt-out
line 2
""";
Result:
opt-out
.....................line 2
..................
