[swift-evolution] multi-line string literals.

[Adrian Zubarev]

To me a literal a single entity which is solved at compile time. The concatenation is however resolved at runtime if I’m not mistaken here (it might be optimized at compile time but I still would expect a function executed a couple of times at runtime).

Please correct me if I’m wrong here.



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Am 3. April 2017 um 17:10:36, Ricardo Parada (rparada at mac.com) schrieb:

How is that better than this?

template = "This is the first line.\n" +
            "This is the second line.\n" +
            "This is the third line."

On Apr 3, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Ricardo Parada via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

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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Am 3. April 2017 um 16:29:44, Ricardo Parada (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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