[swift-evolution] multi-line string literals.

[Ricardo Parada]

It look prettier without the \n

It's not laziness.

I want my code to look pretty.


> On Apr 3, 2017, at 10:40 AM, Adrian Zubarev <adrian.zubarev at devandartist.com> wrote:
> 
> What I was trying to say is that by automatically adding a new line character does not provide any benefit except of being lazy to type \n.
> 
> // In your model this would be equivalent
> let s1 = "\n\n\n"
> let s2 = """
>     " // However in my model this is an empty string and should be banned
>     "
>     """ // That's also an empty string, but it that case it indicates the end of the multi lined string
> I dislike the tradeoff of precision for laziness.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Adrian Zubarev
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> Am 3. April 2017 um 16:29:44, Ricardo Parada (rparada at mac.com <mailto:rparada at mac.com>) schrieb:
> 
>> By the way, the multi-line string should allow \n\n, or as many as you may want to throw in there.  I don't see a problem with that.
>> 
> 
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