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.error { color:#AA0000; }</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="bloop_markdown"><p>This is almost the same as proposed, but we use <code>"</code> instead of <code>|</code>, however you still don’t have trailing space characters covered like this.</p>
<p></p></div><div class="bloop_original_html"><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div> <br> <div id="bloop_sign_1491211064873042176" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- <br>Adrian Zubarev<br>Sent with Airmail</div></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">Am 3. April 2017 um 11:16:41, Charlie Monroe (<a href="mailto:charlie@charliemonroe.net">charlie@charliemonroe.net</a>) schrieb:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div></div><div>
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You can. I wish I remembered the language this was in (not sure if
it's in Scala), but you can do something like:
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<div class="">let xml = '''<br class="">
|<?xml version="1.0"?> <br class="">
|<catalog> </div>
<div class="">| <...></div>
<div class="">|</catalog> <br class="">
'''</div>
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<div class="">This way, if you care about the leading whitespace,
you define the line beginning using "|".</div>
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<div class="">Two characters aren't harmful, but in my experience
when working with HTML strings, etc. the quote-escaping is
extremely tedious.</div>
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<div class="">On Apr 3, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Adrian Zubarev
<<a href="mailto:adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com" class="">adrian.zubarev@devandartist.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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My main concern with this approach is that you don’t have any
control about indent and you loose pre- and post spacing
characters.</p>
<p style="margin: 15px 0px;" class="">A concatenating approach is a
little tedious but it’s precise. In any situation a multi-lined
string is not softly wrapped string, which implies that you will
have to press enter for each new line you wish to have. IMHO adding
two more characters for each line isn’t that harmful. ;-)</p>
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<p class="airmail_on" style="margin: 15px 0px;">Am 3. April 2017 um
10:49:02, Charlie Monroe (<a href="mailto:charlie@charliemonroe.net" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;" class="">charlie@charliemonroe.net</a>) schrieb:</p>
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<div class=""><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">While I long for multiline string literals, I'd also very
like to see a different syntax as in many cases, these can be
XML/HTML snippets and the use of quotes is ubiqituous. I'd very
much like to see a variant where you can simply paste almost any
string without escaping it.</span>
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<div class=""><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">For example, Scala uses a tripple-quote syntax... As we've
gotten rid of ' for character literals, we could use it for
multiline strings?</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Or possibly tripple-apostrophe for multiline
strings?</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">let xml = '''</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><?xml version="1.0"?> </span></div>
<div class=""><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><catalog/> </span></div>
<div class=""><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">'''</span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">On Apr 3, 2017, at
9:01 AM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>>
wrote:</span></div>
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<span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Hello
Swift community,</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">on Github there is
a PR for this proposal, but I couldn’t find any up to date thread,
so I’m going to start by replying to the last message I found,
without the last content.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I really like where
this proposal is going, and my personal preference are
*continuation quotes*. However the proposed solution is still not
perfect enough for me, because it still lacks of precise control
about the trailing space characters in each line of a multi-line
string.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Proposed version
looks like this:</span></p>
<pre class="" style="margin: 15px 0px; font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: auto; padding: 4px 8px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><code class="swift" style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;">let xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
"<catalog>
" <book id=\"bk101\" empty=\"\">
" <author>\(author)</author>
" <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
" <genre>Computer</genre>
" <price>44.95</price>
" <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
" <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description>
" </book>
"</catalog>
""
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<p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I would like to
pitch an enhancement to fix the last tiny part by adding the
escaping character ‘' to the end of each line from 1 to (n - 1) of
the n-lined string. This is similar to what Javascript allows us to
do, except that we also have precise control about the leading
space character through ’"’.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">The proposed
version will become this:</span></p>
<pre class="" style="margin: 15px 0px; font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: auto; padding: 4px 8px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><code class="swift" style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;">let xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\
"<catalog>\ // If you need you can comment here
" <book id=\"bk101\" empty=\"\">\
" <author>\(author)</author>\
" <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>\
" <genre>Computer</genre>\
" <price>44.95</price>\
" <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>\
" <description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description>\
" </book>\
"</catalog>\
""
</code></span></pre>
<p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Here is another
example:</span></p>
<pre class="" style="margin: 15px 0px; font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: auto; padding: 4px 8px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><code class="swift" style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal; -webkit-margin-before: 0px;">let multilineString: String = "123__456__\ // indicates there is another part of the string on the next line
"__789_____\ // aways starts with `"` and ends with either `\` or `"`
"_____0_" // precise control about pre- and post-space-characters
let otherString = "\(someInstance)\ /* only comments are allowed in between */ "text \(someOtherInstance) text"
</code></span></pre>
<p class="" style="margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">This is
simply<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px;"> </span><strong class="" style="-webkit-margin-before: 0px;">continuation
quotes</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>combined with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">backslash
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