[WISH / PATCH] possibility to split string literals across multiple lines
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Radford Neal <radford at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, G?bor Cs?rdi wrote:
I like the idea of string literals, but the C/C++ way clearly does not work. The Python/Julia way might, i.e.: """this is a multi-line lineral"""
luke-tierney at uiowa.edu:
This does look like a promising option; some more careful checking would be needed to make sure there aren't cases where currently working code would be broken.
I don't see how this proposal solves any problem of interest. String literals can already be as long as you like. The problem is that they will get wrapped around in an editor (or not all be visible), destroying the nice formatting of your program.
From the Python docs:
String literals can span multiple lines. One way is using triple-quotes: """...""" or '''...'''. End of lines are automatically included in the string, but it?s possible to prevent this by adding a \ at the end of the line. [...] Gabor