<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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 id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">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 id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Let's keep our code looking pretty and focus on the main things:</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">1. Allow interpolation </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">2. Remove the need to add the \n character for each line</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">3. Remove the need to escape the double quote and apostrophe</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">4. Keep it simple</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I would be fine just with this:</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><code class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; 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; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">let xml = M"<?xml version="1.0"?></font></code></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> "<catalog></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> " <book id="bk101" empty=""></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> " <author>\(author)</author></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> " </book></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> "</catalog></span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On May 5, 2016, at 9:17 AM, David Hart via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 05 May 2016, at 12:30, Michael Peternell via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">it's not a secret that I'm not a big fan of the proposal. The third draft doesn't change this and it's unlikely that any future draft will, because for me, the problem are the continuation quotes, and for Brent it seems like they are a must-have-feature (correct me if I'm wrong.)</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I agree with all you said. I’m fairly sure I would never vote for Brent’s proposal simply because of the existence of continuation quotes, no matter the amount of reasoning behind it. They are simply too unwieldy, cumbersome and unfriendly to modification.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I could see either your proposal, or your proposal without the HERE_DOCs but using Tyler’s/Scala’s <span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre;" class="">.stripMargin</span><span style="white-space: pre;" class="">. Do you think you could start a formal proposal?</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>swift-evolution mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>