var v = """"""
contents"""""
""""""
I like the proposal to have these sort of raw strings, where indentations are removed, but can't they use a symbol before the string like they do with interpolation `$` or literals `@`?
I know it says design decision to go with 1 more " than the longest sequence of " in the string, but why ?
> Provide a mechanism that will allow all string values to be provided by the user without the need for any escape-sequences whatsoever.
Hi! I'm the language designer here :)
I know it says design decision to go with 1 more " than the longest sequence of " in the string, but why ?
Because if we use a symbol before the string, then there needs to be some mechanism to escape it within the string. e.g. if you use `@` literals, you still need to escape quotes within the string literal. The point of this feature (which we try to spell out in the spec) is so that you can have content without the need to escape anything at all.
R"SQL(my string without the sequence S Q L goes here)SQL"
We looked into this. However, there didn't seem to be any benefit to this above just the N-quote version (which fits into how C# does strings everywhere else). In the above case, the `SQL(` and `)SQL` tokens are just akin to N-quotes. Since there's no additional benefit, we went with the simpler approach that solves all these needs, but will look the same across all codebases.
I'd also much prefer some kind of prefix, maybe double "at", e.g.
``` var myString = @@"blah blah blah blah " ```
This feels a lot more natural to me.
In practice, using """ will be sufficient almost all the time.
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""" Is fine though.