OK, thanks for the explanation. dan
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 1:29 AM, Luca Bruno <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
