Re: RFR: Multi-line String Literal (Preview) JEP [EG Draft]

[Alex Buckley]

On 5/15/2019 10:17 AM, Dan Smith wrote:
I think this:
~~~
String code = """
               public void print(""" + type + """
                o) {
                   System.out.println(Objects.toString(o));
               }
               """;
~~~

should be presented like this:

~~~
String code = """
               public void print(""" +
               type +
               """
                o) {
                   System.out.println(Objects.toString(o));
               }
               """;
~~~

It's not great, and replace/format is the "right" solution, but if
somebody wants to do concatenation, this style does a better job of
indicating where the indent prefix ends and the content begins. The
delimiter gives a visual indication of where the "block" is located.

I appreciate that you want to position an opening delimiter to the left 
of its content, but can you say why you want `type +` on its own line? 
What's the big deal with `...""" + type +\n` and then the next text 
block? (You don't seem to object to the closing delimiter sharing a line 
with content, since you have ` + ` after the first closing delimiter.)

Alex