I would think that the concatenation would get resolved at runtime, unless the compiler gets smart about it. But either way I do not see it as a problem. The reason is that I don't remember ever worrying about the performance of concatenating a few lines of text. :-)
Thanks > On Apr 3, 2017, at 11:13 AM, Adrian Zubarev <adrian.zuba...@devandartist.com> > wrote: > > To me a literal a single entity which is solved at compile time. The > concatenation is however resolved at runtime if I’m not mistaken here (it > might be optimized at compile time but I still would expect a function > executed a couple of times at runtime). > > Please correct me if I’m wrong here. > > > > > -- > Adrian Zubarev > Sent with Airmail > > Am 3. April 2017 um 17:10:36, Ricardo Parada (rpar...@mac.com > <mailto:rpar...@mac.com>) schrieb: > >> How is that better than this? >> >> template = "This is the first line.\n" + >> "This is the second line.\n" + >> "This is the third line." >> >>> On Apr 3, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Ricardo Parada via swift-evolution >>> <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote: >>> >>> It look prettier without the \n >>> >>> It's not laziness. >>> >>> I want my code to look pretty. >>> >>> >>>> On Apr 3, 2017, at 10:40 AM, Adrian Zubarev >>>> <adrian.zuba...@devandartist.com <mailto:adrian.zuba...@devandartist.com>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> What I was trying to say is that by automatically adding a new line >>>> character does not provide any benefit except of being lazy to type \n. >>>> >>>> // In your model this would be equivalent >>>> let s1 = "\n\n\n" >>>> let s2 = """ >>>> " // However in my model this is an empty string and should be banned >>>> " >>>> """ // That's also an empty string, but it that case it indicates the >>>> end of the multi lined string >>>> I dislike the tradeoff of precision for laziness. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Adrian Zubarev >>>> Sent with Airmail >>>> >>>> Am 3. April 2017 um 16:29:44, Ricardo Parada (rpar...@mac.com >>>> <mailto:rpar...@mac.com>) schrieb: >>>> >>>>> By the way, the multi-line string should allow \n\n, or as many as you >>>>> may want to throw in there. I don't see a problem with that. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> swift-evolution mailing list >>> swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org> >>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >> > >
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