on Sat Apr 30 2016, David Waite <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > In my opinion, one problem is that we don’t have a reference to a > laundry or wish list of what features we would like around string > literals in the language. Without evaluating a proposal against all of > those features (moves forward, doesn’t impact, creates later issues > for) it is hard to evaluate.
+1, thank you! > My guess here at an exhaustive list: > > Main goals: > - reduce the impact on readability when dealing with certain kinds of string > literals > - reduce the amount of editing needed when inserting/referencing text from an > external source to be used as a string literal > > Specific tasks/asks: > - for large string literals, reduce the amount of editing needed to span > multiple lines > - for strings literals meant to represent multi-line text, allow the visual > newline to be used rather than an encoding > (note: this may mean in the first case newlines are considered > formatting of the literal, while in the second they are considered > part of the represented text) > - with string literals spanning multiple lines, allow for the author > to indent the literal to match flow with surrounding code without > impacting the represented text > - allow for text with double quotes to be represented in a string literal > without requiring those quotes to be escaped > - have the ability to disable all/most escape interpretation to reduce impact > on readability of certain text > - take into account that regular expressions, when added, will likely > require different escaping rules than text string literals > > Approach-specific > - if allowing for inline blocks of strings delimited by start/end points e.g. > here docs, data segments > - if the block end is on its own line, control whether that newline is > part of the represented text > > -DW > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution -- Dave _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution