<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By the way has the backtick or triple backtick been considered?</span></font></blockquote><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div>Backticks already have a meaning—they "quote" an identifier which would otherwise be taken as a keyword.&nbsp;<br><br><div>--&nbsp;</div><div>Brent Royal-Gordon</div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On May 8, 2016, at 2:58 PM, Ricardo Parada &lt;<a href="mailto:rparada@mac.com">rparada@mac.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>The _" and "_ &nbsp;are a good alternative I think. </span><br><span></span><br><span>For some reason the underscore bothers me: it doesn't look as good aesthetically as others, and because it is already used for a couple of other things in Swift (to make large numbers readable and as a placeholder to discard a value). </span><br><span></span><br><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On May 7, 2016, at 7:24 PM, L. Mihalkovic &lt;<a href="mailto:laurent.mihalkovic@gmail.com">laurent.mihalkovic@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Regards</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>(From mobile)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On May 8, 2016, at 12:49 AM, Ricardo Parada via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>It seems to me like this would take care of what is needed 99% of the time. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I've seen many who don't favor continuation quotes. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The other option could be triple quote """ and make the continuation quote optional. Not using the continuation quote would require the closing triple quote """</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>For having built a prototype, I've come to realize that there are more alternatives. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>This is some of my own tests:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://gist.github.com/lmihalkovic/718d1b8f2ae6f7f6ba2ef8da07b64c1c">https://gist.github.com/lmihalkovic/718d1b8f2ae6f7f6ba2ef8da07b64c1c</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The idea of these M/e or any other similar prefix remind me of my perl days (there were a lot of these), and IMO have little to do with the rest of Swift. </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On May 7, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution &lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>```</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>// Something like:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>let xml = M"&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"&lt;catalog&gt;</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;" &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;book id="bk101" empty=""&gt;</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></bl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