I’ve been trying to keep up with this thread and this crossed my mind too. Of course, we don’t want to rule out multi-line strings because of readability and flexibility (Python “”” or Markdown’s ```…``` would be my vote). However, a built-in tempting engine like Mustache would be progressive and powerful.
> On May 2, 2016, at 6:31 AM, Haravikk via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I’m pretty late to the discussion here, but my question is; do we really > want to encourage large blocks of text in code? They tend to bloat things, > especially if they’re not used very often, and even if they are, any large > chunk of text can be loaded from file and cached if (and when) necessary. If > you need to process it, then some kind of templating system would be better. > > I dunno, I just feel like if you’re storing enough text that the current > syntax becomes burdensome, then perhaps the text should be stored elsewhere? > I’d rather discourage big blocks of text in code personally. > _______________________________________________ > 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
