> On May 5, 2016, at 5:08 PM, John Holdsworth via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>
>
>> On 5 May 2016, at 14:17, David Hart <da...@hartbit.com
>> <mailto:da...@hartbit.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 05 May 2016, at 12:30, Michael Peternell via swift-evolution
>>> <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> it's not a secret that I'm not a big fan of the proposal. The third draft
>>> doesn't change this and it's unlikely that any future draft will, because
>>> for me, the problem are the continuation quotes, and for Brent it seems
>>> like they are a must-have-feature (correct me if I'm wrong.)
>>
>> I agree with all you said. I’m fairly sure I would never vote for Brent’s
>> proposal simply because of the existence of continuation quotes, no matter
>> the amount of reasoning behind it. They are simply too unwieldy, cumbersome
>> and unfriendly to modification.
>>
>> I could see either your proposal, or your proposal without the HERE_DOCs but
>> using Tyler’s/Scala’s .stripMargin. Do you think you could start a formal
>> proposal?
>
>
> Adapting the original proposal if you’re not a fan of continuation quotes..
>
> It’s possible to have a multiline “””python””” multi-line string but tidily
> indented.
> As suggested earlier in this thread the lexer can strip the margin on the
> basis of
> the whitespace before the closing quote as per Perl6 (This could be a
> modifier “I”
> but might as well be the default TBH.) Would this be the best of both worlds?
>
> assert( xml == i"""
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <catalog>
> <book id="bk101" empty="">
> <author>\(author)</author>
> <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
> <genre>Computer</genre>
> <price>44.95</price>
> <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
> <description>An in-depth look at creating applications
> with XML.</description>
> </book>
> </catalog>
> ""” )
>
> Other modifiers can also be applied such as “no-escapes"
>
> assert( xml != ei"""<?xml version="1.0"?>
> <catalog>
> <book id="bk101" empty="">
> <author>\(author)</author>
> <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
> <genre>Computer</genre>
> <price>44.95</price>
> <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
> <description>An in-depth look at creating applications
> with XML.</description>
> </book>
> </catalog>
> """ )
>
> I’d hope this would satisfy any need for <<HERE/<<‘HERE’ style constructs.
>
> Or you could support both continuation and indented python style:
> http://johnholdsworth.com/swift-LOCAL-2016-05-05-a-osx.tar.gz
> <http://johnholdsworth.com/swift-LOCAL-2016-05-05-a-osx.tar.gz>
>
> John
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I’m of the opinion that either of these are reasonable solutions, and both
offer different tradeoffs. I’m probably partial to the continuation quotes,
because I don’t want to be guessing about what is going to end up being in my
string and what won’t.
> assert( xml != ei"""<?xml version="1.0"?>
> <catalog>
> <book id="bk101" empty="">
> <author>\(author)</author>
> <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
> <genre>Computer</genre>
> <price>44.95</price>
> <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
> <description>An in-depth look at creating applications
> with XML.</description>
> </book>
> </catalog>
> ""” )
For example, is there a new line after </catalog>?
How would the indenting work if it were immediately followed by triple quotes:
</catalog>”””
I would really like the first line to be lined up with the rest of the xml. Is
that going to introduce a newline into the top of the string?
Could we just enforce that no characters on the lines of the triple quotes
would be included in the string, very much like the heredoc syntax?
assert( xml != ei"”” The text I’m typing here would cause a compiler
error.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<catalog>
<book id="bk101" empty="">
<author>\(author)</author>
<title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
<genre>Computer</genre>
<price>44.95</price>
<publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
<description>An in-depth look at creating applications with
XML.</description>
</book>
</catalog>
same here ""” )
Then it’s very clear what the whitespace stripping will do. But what about
mixed tab vs whitespace? What is the behavior in that case?
Tyler
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