I don't think the intent of multi-line string literals is to replace files or templating libraries. I use those all the time and are superior.
I think it would be handy and make it more pleasant to use for simple cases. Who has not run into a little multi-line literal in your code where you concatenate the pieces using +, add \n at the end of each line and have to escape quotes? > On May 12, 2016, at 12:36 PM, Leonardo Pessoa <m...@lmpessoa.com> wrote: > > I'm not in favour of multiline strings. I believe such strings should be > stored in plain files and loaded as needed. It makes both the code and the > string cleaner to read and maintain. I've had experiences with many languages > that offer that resource and I could see what your code can become in terms > of maintainability when you have such feature on the language. > > -1 from me. > > - Leonardo > >> On 12 May 2016 at 01:05, Eduardo Mourey Lopez Ne via swift-evolution >> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >> Something like this might work >> >> //string ends on the first line that doesnt start with a " >> foo( @"<?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>\n >> ) >> >> //additionally using a +" could be used to indicate a line break >> foo( @"<?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>\n >> ) >> >>> On May 11, 2016, at 9:48 PM, Ricardo Parada via swift-evolution >>> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On May 11, 2016, at 2:34 PM, Vladimir.S <sva...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>>> For example: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> letsourceCode =@“NSString *firstName = @“John”; >>>>> "NSString *lastName = @“Doe”; >>>>> “NSString *fullName = [NSString stringWithFormat: @“%@ >>>>> %@“, firstName, lastName];"@ >>>>> >>>>> The one that would be a bit of a problem is the closing delimiter, >>>> >>>> Yes.. this is why I asked about `"@` - closing delimiter >>>> so.. what is the solution in your case ? >>> >>> Hi Vladimir, >>> >>> I don't really have a solution. Perhaps escaping the closing delimiter like >>> this \"@ >>> >>> It is not pretty but I can't think of anything else. I imagine the other >>> alternatives, i.e. the triple quote `"""` and the quote plus underscore >>> `"_ ` have the same problem. >>> >>> If we make the continuation quote required then we don't need a closing >>> delimiter. That would solve the problem. But I've seen several people say >>> they don't like the continuation quote because they want to be able to >>> paste text and not have to worry much about formatting it afterwards. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> swift-evolution mailing list >>> swift-evolution@swift.org >>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> swift-evolution@swift.org >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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