On 27.04.2016 17:33, Brent Royal-Gordon wrote:
Otherwise, I reject to see any reason to introduce anything new at
this area - we already can concatenate strings and place them on next
line and escape special characters.
Sure, but it's a lot less easy to understand what's going on. See the
examples in the "Motivation" and "Proposed solution" sections.
Sorry, but I don't see that your suggestion is "lot less easy to understand
what's going on" in compare to what we have now.
We have :
let xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n" +
"<catalog>\n" +
" <book id=\"bk101\" empty=\"\">\n" +
" <author>\(author)</author>\n" +
" </book>\n" +
"</catalog>"
You suggest :
let xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
"<catalog>
" <book id=\"bk101\" empty=\"\">
" <author>\(author)</author>
" </book>
"</catalog>"
I can't feel this like much more better because of the same escaping of
special chars. I don't see much problems in \n" and + in first(current)
variant. I just don't understand what such kind of multiline we need for,
so we want to introduce a new 'feature' in language. I don't feel such a
small improvement worth to be implemented. Just my opinion, probably I'm
not right.
My suggestion(one of) :
let xml = "\
"<?xml version="1.0"?>
"<catalog>
" <book id="myid" empty="">
" <author>myAuthor</author>
" <title>myTitle \tutorial 1\(edition 2)</title>
" </book>
"</catalog>
/"
Pros:
* multi-line
* text as-is(with just " at start), no escaping, all characters are allowed
* " at the start says it is a string
* begins with "\ - clearly saying it is a start of special string
* ends with /" - clearly saying "end of the special string"
Cons(but actually this is 'by design' of the feature for text as-is):
* not able to explicitly have 'tab' symbol (was \t)
* not able to have other escaped chars like \n
* not able to have string interpolation.
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