If I understand the motivation for triple quoted strings, it's to allow multiline strings with inverted commas and quotes within them, and to allow quotes and inverted commas within those substrings, all without requiring a continuation marker.
PHP has a structure that's used for this sort of thing, which works quite well and is used when you have a large block of text tobe used as a string. As an example of when this is used, commonly, emails that are constructed in code use this technique. The heredoc syntax is: ---- $var = <<<EndOfStringMarker This text is part of the string. It can include " and '. It can include references to one or more $variable, each of which is replaced with the value of the variable. This string includes the line breaks without needing backslash syntax like backslash n to introduce a newline. Consequently the previous sentence includes a break after the fourth word. To end this string you must have whatever end of string marker you have chosen on a line by itself. Thusly... EndOfStringMarker; ---- PHP documentation on the feature is at http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc IMO this is a useful but fairly infrequently used language facility. Constructing large blocks of text without this facility would be harder, but losing the facility would not be a major blow. Jeff Veit _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
