[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0168: Multi-Line String Literals

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

> On Apr 13, 2017, at 5:35 AM, Ricardo Parada via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Take a look at Brent's revised proposal.I personally thin it is perfect.  Take a look:
> 
> https://github.com/johnno1962a/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0168-multi-line-string-literals.md <https://github.com/johnno1962a/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0168-multi-line-string-literals.md>
Well, um, looks like we got scooped. (I was playing with some non-essential wording and trying to test all the examples before I pointed the list at the new version.)

Since requiring a leading backslash went over like a lead balloon, we've revised the proposal one more time. The leading newline is now optional: If indentation stripping is enabled, you can either start typing content on the same line as the delimiter, or you can start on the next line. I resisted this solution for a while because it seems ad-hoc, but ultimately it's the design that preserves the most formatting flexibility for the user, so I think it's the right way to go.

Other than that, there are no changes to the design in this revision, though I've rephrased a few things and added a section about why we strip a leading newline but not a trailing one.

John has also built a new version of the toolchain which matches this behavior. Download it here: http://johnholdsworth.com/swift-LOCAL-2017-04-13-a-osx.tar.gz

Thanks for your feedback!

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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