On Dec 14, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Ash Berlin wrote:
On 14 Dec 2009, at 22:44, Mike Samuel wrote:
It would be convenient for some DSL use cases to allow
LineTerminators inside code, but it is unclear how this will
interact with revision control systems that rewrite newlines on
checkout
If you want to use a certain form of a new line for what ever
reason, it would probably be best to use \n. Line continuations are
rather annoying to use in practice - if you want the literal to be
split over multiple lines, and to have new lines in the source you
end up ending every line with \n\ which is just ugly. Since we are
already talking about new syntax, I would vote for allowing multi-
line literals.
+∞
The solution is to canonicalize platform-dependent CRLF or CR into LF
only. See
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=proposals:line_terminator_normalization
(from ES4, but still relevant and reusable AFAICT).
/be
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