On 06/03/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 interesting thing is ECMAScript E4X extension already allows to
enter multiline strings like in:
var i = 10;
var str = <x>arbitrary
multiline text that can embed expression
{i * 2} references</x>.toString();
The triple quota proposal would introduce significantly less powerful
mechanism for embedding the strings.
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