On 19 May 2013 15:58, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
We can't just "remove implicit concatenation", because that will break code which is currently working perfectly. And probably it will break more working code than it will fix unnoticed broken code.
Really? Isn't the number of programs breaking roughly equal to 2, perhaps less?
Actually, I find this wording somewhat offensive. I have to make use of this feature to code-in long log strings quite often,: as in human readable long strings that can't have an arbitrary amount of whitespace inside (not the case for embedded SQL/HTML snippets), and yet have to be indented along with the code. That is why my only other e-mail on this thread is about adding some syntax for auto- dedenting multiline strings. Don take me wrong, I dislike auto-concatenation just as the next guy - typing a new set of \" \" on each line sometimes makes me wonder if I shoul stop and code a plug-in for that on my editor - but currently it is the only way of making "pretty enterprise code" with long strings - but for even more verbose calls to "dedent" or explicit concatenation ? (which would not save typing the \" \" as well, just would add even more typing) But if you have an ok way of adding a long human-readable string into code with less typing and correct indentation, with the existing syntax, I'd like to know how do you do it. That would be better than saying "only 2 programs use this". js -><-
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