Except that it would have a few unexpected behaviours, especially
around the & and < characters.
Peter
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Igor Bukanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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