Hey Brent,
thanks a lot for working on multi-line strings!
You were also talking about """ heredocs.
I really liked that idea.
Have you abandoned this concept?
Given that triple-quotes in Swift are already quite different from the Python
version,
we could as well go one step further and introduce quoted here-docs.
E.g.:
print(""")
Hello world.
"""
Is there any interest in something like this?
Should I invest some time in drafting a specification/proposal?
— Martin
> Am 12.04.2017 um 15:40 schrieb Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]>:
>
> Hey folks,
>
>
> We've revised the proposal again. The main difference: You no longer need an
> initial newline to enable indentation stripping, and stripping no longer
> removes that newline even if it is present. (Adrian Zubarev and I believe
> some others argued for this.) We disagreed with this at first, but it made
> more sense as we thought about it more. There are a few things we like about
> it:
>
> 1. The rules and algorithm are simpler.
> 2. It accommodates more coding styles.
> 3. Every non-escaped newline in the literal now creates a corresponding
> newline in the resulting string.
> 4. it's easy to get the old behavior back by backslashing the leading
> newline.
>
> Unfortunately, I think this precludes stripping the trailing newline by
> default, but I think this is ultimately a simpler and better approach than
> the previous draft.
>
> Other changes:
>
> * We realized we needed to make closing delimiter matching a little
> more complicated if we wanted to allow one or two adjacent double-quote
> characters that were part of the literal's contents. Oops.
> * Tabs aren't actually allowed in ordinary string literals, so we now
> explicitly mention that as a difference between the two types.
> * We wrote some tests for the prototype (though they haven't been
> updated for this new version yet).
> * There were some other wording changes, particularly in the
> indentation stripping rationale, but nothing that affects the actual design.
>
> I understand John is working on a new version of his toolchain so people can
> play with the prototype. We hope to have that ready for you all soon.
>
> Let us know what you think of the revisions!
>
> --
> Brent Royal-Gordon
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