I would prefer
var a = `This is a template string.`
`Even though each line is indented to keep the`
`code neat and tidy, the white space used to indent`
`is not in the resulting string` keepindentation`;
as a multiple line string,
2014-09-11 13:55 GMT+08:00 Sebastian Zartner <sebastianzart...@gmail.com>:
> On 9 September 2014 16:51, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well, just for fun
>>
>> const N = "\n"; //maybe we could find evocative unicode name.
>> var a = `This is a template string. ${
>> N}Even though each line is indented to keep the ${
>> N}code neat and tidy, the white space used to indent ${
>> N}is not in the resulting string`;
>>
>
> To me this looks still somewhat hacky.
> Couldn't a simple keyword be added at the the end of a template string?
> So it would be something like this:
>
> var a = `This is a template string.
> Even though each line is indented to keep the
> code neat and tidy, the white space used to indent
> is not in the resulting string` keepindentation;
>
> This would explicitly keep the spaces at the beginning of each line while
> without the keyword they would be removed. Of course the keyword may also
> indicate the opposite depending on parsing would be chosen as default.
> Surely the name for this keyword is not optimal yet and would need to be
> discussed.
>
> Sebastian
>
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