On 11/20/14, 9:05 AM, uri wrote:
On Thursday, 20 November 2014 at 10:41:24 UTC, bearophile wrote:
uri:
It's by design
And it's a nice handy design.
Bye,
bearophile
For Wysiwyg strings I agree that it's great but I prefer C/C++/Python
like behaviour for double quoted strings. I guess it's what I'm used to :)
Cheers,
uri
In Crystal we chose the following: you can have two consecutive string
literals but only if they are separated by a `\` at the end of the line.
So this is a syntax error:
foo("bar" "baz")
But this is ok:
foo("bar" \
"baz")
Likewise, this is an error:
["foo", "bar" "baz", "qux"] # most probably we forgot to add a comma
But this is ok:
["foo", "bar" \
"baz", "qux"]
This way you avoid silly typing mistakes while at the same time you
allow splitting a string across several lines without having to
concatenate them at runtime.
