I believe this is an issue with the lexer. Template strings are parsed at syntax level, not parser level, hence it may not support nested parenthesis.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Dan Hitt <[email protected]> wrote: > If you do string interpolation via > string s = @"some text $some_variable"; > it produces a string like > some text 5 > if 5 were the value of some_variable. > > But if you put parentheses in, this gets defeated: > @("some text $some_variable") > just becomes > some text $some_variable > with no interpolation of the value of some_variable into the string. > > Is this intentional? > > This is with vala 0.28.1 on ubuntu 15.10. > > (And of course it is a very tiny issue, if it is an issue at all. The > reason it > came up in the first place was i had something more complicated, > @("a: $a\n" + > "b: $b\n" + > "c: $c\n") > and i was very surprised that this did not work. It can be fixed by the > slightly lengthier form > @"a: $a\n" + > @"b: $b\n" + > @"c: $c\n" > but i do wonder why grouping with parentheses has such a drastic effect. > And it also makes me wonder just what @ does and what it sees: clearly > it has greater visibility into its surroundings than just some function.) > > Thanks in advance for any info. > > dan > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > -- NixOS Linux <http://nixos.org> _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
