It really amazes me what some people think multiline strings are.
For me, the *definition* of a multiline string is this: """A multiline string
allows you to copy&paste most text, without having to use any special string
quoting rules: that's the primary use case. For example, you can embed
something like <span class="stronger" id='highlighted_bit'>HTML Tags with
different quotes in it</span>, without needing any special care. Some
not-so-common things may still need quotation, like 3 Quotes in a row, but most
XML-snippets, JSON-text or Email-Headers can be pasted as-is."""
If you guys have another definition, then please share with us and enlighten
us: What is the purpose (use case) of having multiline string literals then?
And what is the definition of a multiline string literal? It seems (to me, at
least) like some people just introduce a new string literal syntax and call it
"multiline".
I'm really not very demanding on this issue. I would be happy with """3
quotes""", '''3 single quotes''', <<HERE_DOCS, <<'HERE_DOCS', q{perl style
{balanced quotes} that also allow {{arbitrary} nesting}}; «Guillemets would
also be nice», maybe combined with “English typographical quotes”, you usually
don't use both in a string. My personal opinion would be to use <<HERE_DOCS for
multiline literals with string interpolation (but without any escape sequences
except \\ for \), and <<'HERE_DOCS' for multiline literals without any string
interpolation or escape sequences at all (like 'bash string literals'). But the
users who prefer a quoting style that requires each line to start with a
specific token (wether it's " or \\) don't like any of the """quotation
examples""" that I presented, right?
Regards,
Michael
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