<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I like the continuation quote. It makes the code stay pretty. It doesn't break the indentation of your code. If you take out the continuation quote then things look out of place, as if someone pasted text in the middle of your code by mistake. I don't like the heredoc notation either for the same reasons.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I envision being able to type the opening multi line quote, i.e. M" and then pasting multi line text from the clipboard. The editor would do a smart paste prepending the lines of text with the continuation character. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let's keep our code looking pretty and focus on the main things:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Allow interpolation </div><div class="">2. Remove the need to add the \n character for each line</div><div class="">3. Remove the need to escape the double quote and apostrophe</div><div class="">4. Keep it simple</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would be fine just with this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; line-height: 1.45; padding: 16px; overflow: auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; word-wrap: normal;"><code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; word-break: normal; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: inherit; word-wrap: normal;">let xml = M"<?xml version="1.0"?>
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