> Am 14.04.2017 um 23:35 schrieb BJ Homer <[email protected]>: > > >> 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.
+1 -Thorsten
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