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

[Adrian Zubarev]

I think I found another argument of not to inject a new line after the last content line, even though it’s not a strong argument.

Consider these two examples:

let string_1 = """foo"""


let string_2 = """
    foo
    """
What’s the intuitive result you’d expect without taking all the long talk from the list into account?

Personally, I’d say string_1 == string_2 is true.

Now you’d might think how about the blank line as an example?

let string_3 = """

    """
However the equivalent for this would be:

let string_4 = """\n"""
Empty string in both variations:

let string_5 = """"""


let string_6 = """
    """


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Adrian Zubarev
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Am 14. April 2017 um 03:08:58, Xiaodi Wu (xiaodi.wu at gmail.com) schrieb:

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon <brent at architechies.com> wrote:
On Apr 13, 2017, at 4:48 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:

You say "this is the example set by `print`", but I don't think anything else actually *follows* that example. No other I/O operation in Swift behaves this way.

To be more accurate, it's not `print` that specifies this behavior, but rather the standard output stream's implementation of `TextOutputStream.write(_:)`. Swift *explicitly* leaves this choice up to the TextOutputStream-conforming type. That is, the behavior is up to the receiver and not the argument of a call to `TextOutputStream.write(_:)`.

I feel like I must be misunderstanding what you're trying to say here, because I *think* what you're trying to say is that `TextOutputStream.write(_:)` is what decides whether to add the terminator, which is not only totally wrong (see https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/adc54c8a4d13fbebfeb68244bac401ef2528d6d0/stdlib/public/core/Print.swift#L260) but doesn't even make any sense since there's a terminator parameter on `print` but none on `write(_:)`.

Hmm, you're right here with respect to `print()`. It is, however, explicitly contemplated in the documentation for `TextOutputStream.write(_:)` that conforming types can also determine whether or not to append a terminator, and which, inside their implementation of `write`. The example given in the documentation is:

```
struct ASCIILogger: TextOutputStream {
    mutating func write(_ string: String) {
        let ascii = string.unicodeScalars.lazy.map { scalar in
            scalar == "\n"
              ? "\n"
              : scalar.escaped(asASCII: true)
        }
        print(ascii.joined(separator: ""), terminator: "")
    }
}
```



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