[swift-evolution] multi-line string literals.

[L. Mihalkovic]

Regards
(From mobile)

> On May 8, 2016, at 12:49 AM, Ricardo Parada via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> It seems to me like this would take care of what is needed 99% of the time. 
> 
> I've seen many who don't favor continuation quotes. 
> 
> The other option could be triple quote """ and make the continuation quote optional. Not using the continuation quote would require the closing triple quote """
> 

For having built a prototype, I've come to realize that there are more alternatives. 

This is some of my own tests:
https://gist.github.com/lmihalkovic/718d1b8f2ae6f7f6ba2ef8da07b64c1c

The idea of these M/e or any other similar prefix remind me of my perl days (there were a lot of these), and IMO have little to do with the rest of Swift. 

>> On May 7, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> ```
>> // Something like:
>> let xml = M"<?xml version="1.0"?>
>>          "<catalog>
>>          "    <book id="bk101" empty="">
>>          "        <author>\(author)</author>
>>          "    </book>
>>          "</catalog>
>> ```
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