> H3) No recovery for tokenization / syntax highlighting. IMHO, this is the
> big drawback of Python-style """ strings.
A key way this manifests is while typing your program. When you type the
opening """, the rest of the text in the file is going to be "inverted" between
code and multiline strings (multiline strings will appear as code and code as
multiline strings) which is really ugly and can slow down your IDE with
re-parsing and error generation / highlighting. Continuation characters enable
much cleaner handling of the "incomplete program" case, but I believe my
proposal comes close enough, because resumption of code can be assumed at the
next reduction in indentation (usually the next '}') or multiline string close
sequence (''' or ///).
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Peter Dillinger, Ph.D.
Software Engineering Manager, Coverity Analysis, Software Integrity Group |
Synopsys
www.synopsys.com/software
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