> On 22 Apr 2017, at 10:21, Thorsten Seitz via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Am 21.04.2017 um 20:48 schrieb Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution >> <[email protected]>: >> >> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Erica Sadun <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 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]> 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. >> >> A different scenario from what Robert's describing, but sure. This goes to >> my question to David Hart. Isn't this an argument for a feature to allow >> breaking a single-line string literal across multiple lines? What makes this >> a use case for some feature for _multiline_ string literals in particular? > > I think „single-line“ and „multiline“ should foremost apply to the code > representation of a string and not its result. > Otherwise "foo\nbar“ would be a multiline string with your reasoning, > wouldn’t you agree? > > Therefore a multiline string is one which is written over several lines of > *code* to make maintenance easier. > From that follows naturally that as soon as line breaks are introduced for > hard wrapping we are talking about multiline strings. > > In addition as soon as line breaks are introduced in the code the question of > indentation arises which is solved neatly with the multiline string proposal > by the position of the ending delimiter which is not possible with > single-line strings.
+1 to this whole message > -Thorsten > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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