PROPOSAL: Multiline strings (original) (raw)

Jeremy Manson jeremy.manson at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 09:53:35 PST 2009

The plus side of the escaped String approach is that you can then use any language, not just regexps. Also, escaped Strings might be a plus for security purposes.

Also, I'm not a big fan of the idea of embedding the domain-specific-language-du-jour into my programming language. I see it as a slippery slope. It's regexps today, but it's XML tomorrow (I'm looking at you, Scala).

Jeremy

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Adrian Kuhn <akuhn at gmx.ch> wrote:

On 01.03.2009, at 09:58, Jeremy Manson wrote:

Frankly, to me, the big win would actually not be multiline literals, but would be escaped String literals.  I'm sick of writing all of my regexps with twice as many \ characters as they need. In this case, why not allow regexps to be written literally in source code? As is done in many other languages. Although, this change would couple the regexp API with the language. But maybe here, the benefit might be worth the costs. --AA

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