On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Jan 7, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We need to decide if we want to keep the "\\" syntax since now
>>> newlines are significant.
>>>
>>> There are two use cases I can see:
>>>
>>> 1) If we want to allow users to enter empty paragraphs (using \\):
>>>
>>> some para
>>> \\
>>> still the same para
>>>
>>> another para
>>
>> If the rational is "We escape the new line" I would prefer to use "~"
>> instean of "\\" since our escaping character is "~" now.
>
> We need one way to handle 1) and 2) which is a way to force a line
> break. Having 2 solutions is complex and not intuitive.
Ok so it's not a new line escaping it's about adding a line break
between two new lines.
>
> In addition it's creole-compatible.
>
>>> 2) Using \\ in scripts
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> #set ($var = "hello\\world")
>>> $var
>>>
>>> note that a possibility is to use the following which is less nice
>>> IMO:
>>> #set ($var = "hello${xwiki.nl}world")
>>>
>>> So here's my +1 to keep "\\" syntax.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
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