On Mar 5, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Lars Hansen wrote: > Given the apparent lack of enthusiasm for this proposal, and the call > for a new design voiced in last night's phone conference, I propose > that > we simply reject the triply-quoted string proposal. > > IMO a minor adjustment to the triply-quoted string proposal to address > its shortcomings would be reasonable, but I do not think that it is > appropriate to propose a new, competing design at this time.
I agree, and I certainly wasn't going back to the drawing board. The only issues AFAIK were * Do we need this in light of the line continuations support? But continuations are not enough, and ugly to boot: backslash-escaped newlines in strings are elided, so there's no newline left as a character in the string. Triple quoting does give verbatim multiline string literals where continuations do not. * Do we want any backslash-escaping other than the quote character in the string? I said I would check the Python design docs and code. These were more on the order of doubting the utility of triple- quoting, and asking whether it matches Python. Not requests for a brand-new and different spec. /be _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
