On 2020-06-16 2:37 a.m., Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Soni L. writes:
> so I propose a \z string escape which lets me write the above as shown
> below:
>
> """switches to toml config format. the old 'repos' \z
> table is preserved as 'repos_old'"""
We already have that, if you don't care about left-alignment:
>>> """123456789\
... abcdefghi"""
'123456789abcdefghi'
>>>
So '\z' would only give us removal of indentation whitespace from the
string. Too much magic, and it has the same problem that trailing '\'
has: most people will have to intentionally look for it to see it
(though it's easier to spot than trailing '\' for me).
That's a -1 for me.
Explicit is better than implicit.
and \z is more explicit than #cont
Steve
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