Well, I do find the feature useful... I have seen a lot of scripts that contain multiline strings. Yes, you can used escaped newlines, but triple-quoting is definitely much more useful. For what it's worth, triple-quoting is syntactic sugar, but the sugar
1) is easy to describe and implement, 2) does not add ugly stuff to the language, 3) makes multiline strings much more readable. Michael ---------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brendan Eich Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:24 PM To: es4-discuss Subject: Re: Triple quoted strings On Mar 5, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Nathan de Vries wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 00:14 +0000, Peter Hall wrote: >> Except that it would have a few unexpected behaviours, especially >> around the & and < characters. > > What would those unexpected behaviours be? Here document syntax is > available (and relatively standard) in UNIX shell, PHP, Perl & Ruby. > Python seems to be the only language that has strayed from the > traditional syntax, and I'm not entirely sure why ES4 is planning to > follow suite. I'm an old Unix hacker, I remember the Bourne Shell (source too, in C- gol). E4X may have given people the idea that ES4 will add even more (mis-)appropriated syntax but we aren't doing pipelines or command substitution. I don't see why we need here documents in all their glory, although I like and use them. Triple-quoted strings are simply for embedding quote and newline characters, verbatim and freely. If no one (including you Pythonistas) would find them useful then we should defer the proposal. /be _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
