[swift-evolution] multi-line string literals

[Travis Tilley]

Fair enough point. But wouldn't we still want indentation erasure which
would be counter-intuitive for what we expect from triple backticks?
like... a block of json defined in the middle of a function, this having
maybe two levels of indentation to be erased.


On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Drew Crawford <drew at sealedabstract.com>
wrote:

> That's an interesting idea!  What about """ for escaped strings and ```
> for unescaped literal strings?
>
> The latter is intuitive for me for preformatted text (with JSON et al
> are), and Swift in fact uses Markdown for doc comments, so we assume some
> familiarity from the developer.
>
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