> White space seems “implementable”, but I’m not sure that it is good.
> Visually, it would break up the string literal and make it less obviously a
> unit.
>
> Comments on the same line as a string chunk should *not* be split out IMO, in:
>
> let s = “fooo // hello world
> “ nice to know you”
>
> the “hello world” text should be included in the literal. I suppose it would
> be possible to allow comments on whitespace lines, but I don’t see a reason
> to do that. I’d suggest starting simple, since that could always be added
> down the road if there was great demand.
What I'm actually suggesting is that comments *before* the continuing quote
would be honored without terminating the literal:
let xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
"<catalog>
" <book id=\"bk101\" empty=\"\">
// " <author>\(author)</author>
" </book>
"</catalog>"
A // or /* after the continuing quote would still be part of the literal.
I'm preparing a second draft without that feature, though, so if you still
think it's a bad idea, I'll drop it.
--
Brent Royal-Gordon
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