[swift-evolution] multi-line string literals

[Riley Avron]

>
> How about this: a pseudo-function that will just include the contents of
> another file into your code?
> let bigString = StringLiteral(“MyLifeStory”)
> You have another file called “MyLifeStory.swiftstring” alongside your
> source file. Then there is no thinking about escaping, line endings, etc.
> Anything in that file is processed as the string.


This makes sense for truly long strings, but could get unwieldy in the case
of a handful of strings spanning a few lines each, which I would posit is
the more common case.

Riley

On 14 December 2015 at 10:56, Kenny Leung via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> How about this: a pseudo-function that will just include the contents of
> another file into your code?
>
> let bigString = StringLiteral(“MyLifeStory”)
>
> You have another file called “MyLifeStory.swiftstring” alongside your
> source file. Then there is no thinking about escaping, line endings, etc.
> Anything in that file is processed as the string.
>
> -Kenny
>
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