Multi-line string literal proposals. #322
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| This proposal puts forward three alternate syntaxes for discussion: `"continuation quotes"`, `"""long strings"""` | ||
| and `<<"heredoc"`. It has been shown all three can co-exist in the same parser and it is proposed all | ||
| three should be made available to the Swift developer to chose according to their preference though |
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The proposal should focus on the triple quotes syntax and leave the others as considered alternatives because:
Also, the proposal could consider an arbitrary number of quotes to encapsulate multiquotes in the string itself, just like the markdown syntax with multiple backticks where |
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I'm closing out PRs for proposals that are out of scope for Swift 4 stage 1. When we open up the process to the point where this proposal can be in scope, please re-open the pull request. |
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Swift evolution propoasl for adding multi-line string literals to the Swift languge. It lists three syntaxes hopefully all of which could be made available to different constituencies in the Swift community.
The proposal was explored in an existing PR and “prototype toolchain”:
swiftlang/swift#2275
http://johnholdsworth.com/swift-LOCAL-2016-05-09-a-osx.tar.gz