> On Apr 21, 2017, at 12:40 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Robert Bennett via swift-evolution > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Xiaodi, I think one thing you're neglecting is that users may never print out > a multiline literal string at all. A string might never be printed or read by > a human outside of the code it resides in. In this case it seems perfectly > reasonable to ask that it be possible to format the string nicely in the code > and disregard how it would actually be printed. > > Can you give an example of such a use case, where a string is never seen by a > human but one cannot insert literal newlines and would need elided ones > instead?
The most common reason is that the code is maintained by a (non-human) developer, who wants to be able to see and update the code in a readable form, but that represents a single line that will automatically wrapped by, for example, a UITextView for (human) consumption. -- E
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