Thanks for the clarification. Tickets/clarifications on these issues are IMO in scope.
--lars > -----Original Message----- > From: Brendan Eich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 5. mars 2008 10:28 > To: Lars Hansen > Cc: [email protected] es4-discuss > Subject: Re: ES4 draft: Triply quoted string literals > > 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
