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

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

> On Apr 22, 2017, at 8:12 AM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 3:38 AM, Brent Royal-Gordon <brent at architechies.com <mailto:brent at architechies.com>> wrote:
>> On Apr 21, 2017, at 11:48 AM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> This goes to my question to David Hart. Isn't this an argument for a feature to allow breaking a single-line string literal across multiple lines? What makes this a use case for some feature for _multiline_ string literals in particular?
> 
> Well, if you're breaking a string across several lines, you will want indentation stripping too. Are you suggesting we should also bring that feature to single-line string literals with escaped newlines?
> 
> No, I am suggesting that whatever design is used for escaped newlines, if at all possible it should be equally apt for "strings" and """strings""" such that it will not require indentation stripping.

Could you share an example of such a design? It doesn't have to be something you'd be happy to have in the language; it just needs to fit the following criteria:

* Permits non-significant hard-wrapping in a string literal.

* Works equally well with single and triple string literals.

* Preserves code indentation, but does not require single string literals to do indentation stripping.

* Is not horribly inconvenient.

-- 
Brent Royal-Gordon
Architechies

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