This doesn't provide very much flexibility. I'd like to see something more like Perl6's quoting constructs: https://doc.perl6.org/language/quoting.
-Patrick > On Apr 22, 2016, at 12:59 PM, John Holdsworth via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ve raised a speculative PR against the Swift Lexer to support multi-line > string literals as was > suggested in the very first week Swift was open sourced and before that in > various radars. > > https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2275 > > The approach taken is as simple as possible defining multi-line strings as > being > delimited by “”” instead of “ and thereafter able to contain new line > characters. > > There has been some discussion of this before on swift-evolution: > > https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001565.html > > I’m trying to avoid more advanced features such as the handling of indenting > which > for me complicates something that if kept simple can be documented very > easily. > > This change will require a evolution proposal so I’d like to take the pulse > before I write it up. > > Thoughts? > > John > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
