<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><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 9, 2017, at 9:29 AM, John Holdsworth 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=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Perhaps we can find common ground on 1) and 2) and even 3) with a view to resubmitting if there is time. Seems mostly like we just need to discuss the delimiter further and decide whether the indent trimming is a bug or a feature to keep moving and not let another year slip by.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Honestly, I think this is a little premature. If I had to summarize this thread, I think what I'm seeing is:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. We wish the proposal were more specific on a few points, like the de-indenting algorithm.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. We have lots of different pet syntaxes and preferences.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. But most of us are still in favor of accepting the proposal.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>To back up that last point, I ran through the thread and tried to quickly figure out what everyone was thinking. These people seem to be opposed to the proposal: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. Haravikk doesn't like the de-indenting and seems iffy on multiline strings in general.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. David Waite wants a suite of different, orthogonal string literal features to get enough flexibility.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. Félix Cloutier is worried that supporting interpolation makes this feature a powerful footgun.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. Adrian Zubarev wants to extend single-quoted string literals instead of developing a second syntax.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">These people want the proposal to be more specific, but appear to be in favor as long as the missing details don't reveal problems:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. Greg Parker (maybe?)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. Xiaodi Wu</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. Gwendel Roué</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And these people all seem basically positive, though sometimes with reservations or bikeshedding suggestions:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. Me</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. Tony Allevato</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. David Hart</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. Daniel Duan</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5. Ricardo Parada</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>6. Kevin Nattinger</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>7. Víctor Pimentel Rodríguez</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>8. Jarod Long (I think)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>9. Ben Cohen</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>10. Thorsten Seitz</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>11. Howard Lovatt</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>12. T.J. Usiyan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Evolution reviews are not referenda, but I think it's fair to say that the sentiment is mostly positive.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(And if the core team does say they like the approach but want clarifications, I'd be happy to pitch in and earn the co-author credit!)</div><br class=""><div class="">
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