On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Frederik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have seen that the current Vala SVN trunk now supports verbatim
> strings. That's a nice feature, but I think that the chosen triple
> double-quote syntax could conflict with another feature I would love to
> see in Vala someday: string literal concatenation. This would allow more
> beautiful syntax formatting of long or multi-line strings, for example:
>
> string my_string = "This is the first half of the string,\n"
>                    "this is the second half";
>
> But in that case """verbatim string""" would be interpreted as
> "" (+) "verbatim string" (+) "".
>
> The C# syntax is @"verbatim string", but I don't know if that would
> conflict with the Vala syntax for using reserved keywords.
>
> What do you think?
>

The python """ was selected for verbatim strings because the c# syntax needs
you to escape " using \" if I understood it correctly.
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