<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Also note that we'd still need raw strings that don't parse escapes but still perform indentation erasure. There have been several use cases presented in this thread that would require it, so we'd still end up needing three string literal styles.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">-Travis Tilley</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Alex Gordon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alextgordon@gmail.com" target="_blank">alextgordon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>What is the reason that normal strings "..." don't support newlines? It's not traditionally seen in C-inspired languages, but it's hardly unusual outside that sphere[*]. Ruby and HTML are probably the most common examples, but apparently OCaml and Lisps also allow it?</div><div><br></div><div>Then we can simply use</div><div><br></div><div>1. "..." strings as the verbatim literal, preserving indentation and leading newlines as written.</div><div><br></div><div>2. """...""" strings as the non-verbatim literal, reducing indentation to that of the least indented line, and removing the leading newline if it exists.</div><div><br></div><div>[*] As seen earlier <a href="http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.html#StrngMltLine" target="_blank">http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.html#StrngMltLine</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Travis Tilley via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">That's another great example that I hadn't even thought of.</span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Travis Tilley</span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Jason Dusek </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:jason.dusek@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.dusek@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">One use case for a slightly richer approach to indentation erasure — one that I encounter every day — is inline SQL. If it’s 10 lines or more, it should probably find expression as a <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);border-radius:3px;display:inline;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">VIEW</code> or stored procedure; but queries like this are not unusual:<br></p></span>
<pre style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;margin:1.2em 0px"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);border-radius:3px;display:inline;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);white-space:pre-wrap;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0.5em 0.7em;display:block!important;display:block;overflow-x:auto;padding:0.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:rgb(248,248,248)"><span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold">func</span> <span style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-weight:bold">findMentions</span><span>(account: String)</span> -> <span style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-weight:bold">Array</span><span><String></span> </span>{
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold">let</span> db = databaseFactory().findDatabase()
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold">let</span> q = ```<span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">SELECT</span> array_agg(<a href="http://mentioner.id" target="_blank">mentioner.id</a>)
<span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">FROM</span> account
<span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">JOIN</span> mention <span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">ON</span> (<a href="http://account.id" target="_blank">account.id</a> = mentioned)
<span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">JOIN</span> account <span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">AS</span> mentioner <span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">ON</span> (<a href="http://mentioner.id" target="_blank">mentioner.id</a> = mentioner)
<span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">WHERE</span> account.handle = :<span style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">1</span>
<span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">ORDER</span> <span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">BY</span> timestamp <span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">DESC</span>
<span style="color:rgb(68,85,136);font-weight:bold">LIMIT</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">1</span>```
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold">return</span> db.query(q).parameterize(account).run()
}
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<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">Moving everything below <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);border-radius:3px;display:inline;background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">q</code> seems infelicitous, at best. However, I do see the appeal of basing the rule on the position of the backticks.</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">Best Regards,</p><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">Jason Dusek</p></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>
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