This should be answered in JEP 368, which currently introduces \s with
its definition rather than a connecting line back to the final line of
the Motivation. JEP 355 had text about the octal escape sequence \040
and now Remi has raised \u0020 -- both should be positioned in 368 as
less-clear options for explicit whitespace than a new escape sequence.
Syntactic real estate for escape sequences is not in short supply, but
there is an element of surprise that we're finally building there.
Alex
On 11/5/2019 10:17 AM, Remi Forax wrote:
Hi Jim,
the rationale to add \<newline> is well explain but why do you want to
introduce \s given we already have \u0020 ?
Rémi
----- Mail original -----
De: "Jim Laskey" <james.las...@oracle.com>
À: "core-libs-dev" <core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net>, "compiler-dev"
<compiler-...@openjdk.java.net>
Envoyé: Mardi 5 Novembre 2019 19:00:32
Objet: Re: RFR: CSR JDK-8233117 Escape Sequences For Line Continuation and
White Space (Preview)
Re-proposed.
On Nov 5, 2019, at 11:40 AM, Jim Laskey <james.las...@oracle.com> wrote:
I'm withdrawing until it is the correct format. Apologies.
On Nov 5, 2019, at 9:58 AM, Jim Laskey <james.las...@oracle.com> wrote:
Please review the following CSR. Provides for the introduction of two new escape
sequences \<line-terminator> and \s. \<line-terminator> allows developers to
express unwieldy string literals in a text block as a cluster of short single
line segments. The second is to allow developers to express ASCII space, much
like \t for tab.
Thank you.
Cheers,
- Jim
CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8233117
