> On Aug 15, 2019, at 11:19 AM, Jim Laskey <james.las...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Assuming the proposal is <LWS* \ LWS* LWS> (keep last white space), I see the > light but I see the dark here as well (and maybe not enough here to switch > horses.) > > String hexData = """ > 000102030405060708090a0b0c0d0e0f101112131415 \ > 161718191a1b1c1d1e1f202122232425262728292a2b2c \ > 2d2e2f303132333435363738393a3b3c3d3e3f40 \ > 4142434445464748494a4b4c4d4e4f505152535455 \ > """; > > This sort of pattern is high maintenance; aligning backslashes.
A good IDE will help you align the backslashes. EMACS C mode certainly does. (Note how carefully I have finessed the question of whether EMACS actually constitutes a “good IDE”! :-) But I note that this style of aligned backslashes is used in the C world only in situations where it really doesn’t matter how much whitespace there is where the line is broken. This suggests the following tweak to John’s proposal: replace < LWS* \ LT LWS* LWS > and likewise < LWS LWS* \ LT LWS* > with a single space, and otherwise simply delete < \ LT >. (If this isn’t what you want, then again, you can use \s to delimit what you want kept.)
