On 06/03/2008, Michael Daumling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I do find the feature useful... > > I have seen a lot of scripts that contain multiline strings. Yes, you > can used escaped newlines, but triple-quoting is definitely much more > useful. For what it's worth, triple-quoting is syntactic sugar, but the > sugar > > 1) is easy to describe and implement, > 2) does not add ugly stuff to the language, > 3) makes multiline strings much more readable.
Is there a reason why single-quote strings can't simply be made multiline in ES4? This would be backwards compatible and wouldn't exclude the use of triple-quoted strings (or heredoc). _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
