> Consider these two examples:
>
> let string_1 = """foo"""
>
>
> let string_2 = """
> foo
> """
> What’s the intuitive result you’d expect without taking all the long talk
> from the list into account?
>
> Personally, I’d say string_1 == string_2 is true.
>
I think it’s reasonable to expect them to be different, actually. I might call
these “single-line” and “multi-line” mode strings. The single-line mode is
primarily useful for being able to include unescaped double-quotes in the
string. If you’re in multi-line mode, though, it’s reasonable to be thinking
about things in terms of “lines”, and having a trailing newline there seems
reasonable. For example, I think it’s reasonable to expect this:
let a = """
This is line one
This is line two"
"""
let b = """
This is line three
This is line four
"""
(a + b) == """
This is line one
This is line two
This is line three
This is line four
"""
That seems like a reasonable model to work with multi-line strings.
-BJ
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