Hi, but what is a verbatim string? is it something similiar to #define QUOTE(x) #x ?
Yu On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:02 +0200, Frederik 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? > > Frederik > _______________________________________________ > Vala-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
