[swift-evolution] multi-line string literals.

[John Holdsworth]

As a long time user of Perl, for me the simplicity and lack of flexibility is the attraction
when it comes to “”” syntax ;) That’s a lot of documentation for just specifying a string.

Perl makes life difficult for itself due to it’s rather simplistic $var interpolation syntax
which means you frequently want an un-interpolated string literal. The situation is
far better in Swift with the more distinct \().

Can you think of anything that couldn’t be readily expressed using Python style “””?

John
> On 22 Apr 2016, at 19:12, Patrick Gili <gili.patrick.r at gili-labs.com> wrote:
> 
> This doesn't provide very much flexibility. I'd like to see something more like Perl6's quoting constructs: https://doc.perl6.org/language/quoting.
> 
> -Patrick
> 
>> On Apr 22, 2016, at 12:59 PM, John Holdsworth via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I’ve raised a speculative PR against the Swift Lexer to support multi-line string literals as was
>> suggested in the very first week Swift was open sourced and before that in various radars.
>> 
>> https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2275
>> 
>> The approach taken is as simple as possible defining multi-line strings as being
>> delimited by “”” instead of “ and thereafter able to contain new line characters.
>> 
>> There has been some discussion of this before on swift-evolution:
>> 
>> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001565.html
>> 
>> I’m trying to avoid more advanced features such as the handling of indenting which
>> for me complicates something that if kept simple can be documented very easily.
>> 
>> This change will require a evolution proposal so I’d like to take the pulse before I write it up.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> John
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