> Just ignore me if that's been covered in the archives already (there is a lot > there, I'm still catching up), but is there a reason we can't just allow > newlines in the existing string constants and be done with it? Since they've > been invalid so far, nobody has code that contains line breaks that could be > broken. At worst the code formatter would have to be told not to indent such > lines, but beyond that, why are newlines in strings not permitted?
In short: Runaway strings. If you forget to include an ending ", the resulting error may be miles away from where you actually made a mistake. -- Brent Royal-Gordon Architechies _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
