In line. > On Sep 30, 2019, at 12:29 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore > <maurizio.cimadam...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi, > in general I see where the enhancements are coming from - but I do have some > comments. > > One is pedagogical; I think a world where single line strings are denoted by > a single double quote, whereas multi line strings are denoted by triple > double quotes is a relatively wimple world for the user to grok. This > proposal effectively blurs the line between the two variants, as now you can > (in the degenerate case where all lines in a text block ends with '\') > express a single line string with a text block syntax - which I understand is > the part of the goal, but...
And String s = "aa\nbb\ncc\n" is truly single line? I think they are just the same thing wearing different clothes. > > The other perplexity is on the use of \s with text blocks; I don't get why > the output in your example ends up being: > > red<one space><new line>green<one space><new line>blue<one space><blue line> > > Why is the space at the left of the '\s' being ignored? In fact, '\s' is the > _only_ thing you can put in that place that will cause the previous space to > be ignored and dropped on the floor, which makes me uncomfortable. I think > that, to get the output you want, '\s' should be close to the end of > red/green/blue - if, on the other hand, if you add space and _then_ you add a > '/s', I don't think we should treat this differently from adding space and > then some _random_ character - in which case all the space in between will be > preserved. This is a readability issue in the edits. It's actually "red....\ngreen..\nblue...\n". I'll fix. > > Maurizio > > > On 30/09/2019 12:45, Jim Laskey wrote: >> During the discussion on Text Blocks, several of you stated a need for a >> line continuation construct. I have since created a CSR to propose the >> creation of two new escape sequences: \<line terminator> and \s. >> >> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8227870 >> >> >> Please review and comment here. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- Jim >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
