[swift-evolution] multi-line string literals.

[Ricardo Parada]

The _" and "_  are a good alternative I think. 

For some reason the underscore bothers me: it doesn't look as good aesthetically as others, and because it is already used for a couple of other things in Swift (to make large numbers readable and as a placeholder to discard a value). 

By the way has the backtick or triple backtick been considered?



> On May 7, 2016, at 7:24 PM, L. Mihalkovic <laurent.mihalkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Regards
> (From mobile)
> 
>> On May 8, 2016, at 12:49 AM, Ricardo Parada via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> It seems to me like this would take care of what is needed 99% of the time. 
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>> I've seen many who don't favor continuation quotes. 
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>> The other option could be triple quote """ and make the continuation quote optional. Not using the continuation quote would require the closing triple quote """
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> For having built a prototype, I've come to realize that there are more alternatives. 
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> This is some of my own tests:
> https://gist.github.com/lmihalkovic/718d1b8f2ae6f7f6ba2ef8da07b64c1c
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> 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. 
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>>> On May 7, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> ```
>>> // Something like:
>>> let xml = M"<?xml version="1.0"?>
>>>         "<catalog>
>>>         "    <book id="bk101" empty="">
>>>         "        <author>\(author)</author>
>>>         "    </book>
>>>         "</catalog>
>>> ```
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