Hi Frederik, On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:02 +0200, Frederik wrote: > 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" (+) "".
This won't cause any issues. Three consecutive " are considered a single token and will never be interpreted as an empty string followed by another string. We should certainly add string literal concatenation, it's just not implemented yet. Jürg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
