The one disadvantage I've encountered in C is an example like:
const char *a_s[] = {
"abc",
"def"
"ghi"
}
The missing comma in the initializer list is not diagnosed
but causes an unwanted initialization.
In Chapel:
var a_s = [
"abc",
"def"
"ghi"
];
seems similar.
So, I guess I agree with Michael here.
TMacD
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Michael Ferguson wrote:
> Hi -
>
> On 3/9/17, 2:10 PM, "Brad Chamberlain" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> To provide a bit more context: I find the ability to split string
>> literals across lines in C (by closing the string and re-opening it on
>> the
>> next line) to be a really valuable feature and created this issue to
>> propose that we do the same for Chapel a few days ago.
>
> Doesn't
>
> writeln("this is the first line here " +
> "this is the second line here");
>
> cover this use-case already? This is how you'd do it in Java
> so I don't think it's ridiculous or anything. Param string folding
> should take care of it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -michael
>
>>
>> That said, I didn't want Saurabh to dive into it only to find that it
>> didn't have broad support across the team. So if you want to support or
>> push back against the feature, please see the issue. I couldn't think of
>> a reason not to support it, but maybe I'm missing something.
>>
>> -Brad
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Saurabh Sood wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I wanted to know if it would be useful to tackle issue #5501
>>> <https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/issues/5501>.
>>> How often is that feature used? And would it be helpful to many people?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Saurabh Sood
>>>
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