> By the way has the backtick or triple backtick been considered? Backticks already have a meaning—they "quote" an identifier which would otherwise be taken as a keyword.
-- Brent Royal-Gordon Sent from my iPhone > On May 8, 2016, at 2:58 PM, Ricardo Parada <[email protected]> wrote: > > The _" and "_ are a good alternative I think. > > For some reason the underscore bothers me: it doesn't look as good > aesthetically as others, and because it is already used for a couple of other > things in Swift (to make large numbers readable and as a placeholder to > discard a value). > > > > > >> On May 7, 2016, at 7:24 PM, L. Mihalkovic <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Regards >> (From mobile) >> >>> On May 8, 2016, at 12:49 AM, Ricardo Parada via swift-evolution >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> It seems to me like this would take care of what is needed 99% of the time. >>> >>> I've seen many who don't favor continuation quotes. >>> >>> The other option could be triple quote """ and make the continuation quote >>> optional. Not using the continuation quote would require the closing triple >>> quote """ >> >> For having built a prototype, I've come to realize that there are more >> alternatives. >> >> This is some of my own tests: >> https://gist.github.com/lmihalkovic/718d1b8f2ae6f7f6ba2ef8da07b64c1c >> >> The idea of these M/e or any other similar prefix remind me of my perl days >> (there were a lot of these), and IMO have little to do with the rest of >> Swift. >> >>>> On May 7, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> ``` >>>> // Something like: >>>> let xml = M"<?xml version="1.0"?> >>>> "<catalog> >>>> " <book id="bk101" empty=""> >>>> " <author>\(author)</author> >>>> " </book> >>>> "</catalog> >>>> ``` >>> _______________________________________________ >>> swift-evolution mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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