I totally see what you are driving at. But I just see less value in it that
with trailing closure. But it’s very personal.
> On 15 Jun 2017, at 13:18, Gor Gyolchanyan <g...@gyolchanyan.com> wrote:
>
> Funny you should mention DSLs:
>
> let myQuery = sql """
> SELECT id, name, date
> FROM MyTable
> WHERE id > 100
> """
>
> let myLayout = NSLayoutConstraint """
> ...
> """
>
> let myPredicate = NSPredicate ""
> ...
> """
>
>> On Jun 15, 2017, at 2:05 PM, David Hart <davidh...@fastmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I have never felt that need.
>>
>> Trailing closures fill of need of making Swift a good candidate for building
>> DSLs, where they make the function calls look more like first-class
>> operations. But I don’t think that trailing strings would be as useful.
>>
>> David.
>>
>>> On 15 Jun 2017, at 11:54, Gor Gyolchanyan via swift-evolution
>>> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Good day, swift evolution community!
>>>
>>> I'll just get right to it...
>>>
>>> Did anyone else beside me wished this was a thing?
>>>
>>> func parse(allowSomeBehavior: Bool = true, source: String) {
>>> // ...
>>> }
>>>
>>> parse(allowSomeBehavior: false) """
>>> This is a source string
>>> that contains a number of lines of text
>>> which is passed to the function `parse`
>>> """
>>>
>>> parse """
>>> The exact same thing as above
>>> except no other parameters are specified
>>> """
>>>
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