May 16, 2013
5:54 a.m.
From: Markus Unterwaditzer <markus@unterwaditzer.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:18 PM
Not sure why nobody mentioned it yet, maybe it's obviously not helping in this situation, but...
What if such multi-line strings have to have their own set of parens around them?
Valid: do_foo( ("foo" "bar"), "baz" )
Invalid: do_foo( "foo" "bar", "baz" )
As I understand it, the main reason people didn't like Guido's suggestion of "just use +" was that (because of operator precedence) they'd sometimes have to add parentheses that are unnecessary today. So, I'm betting it will be just as unpopular with the same people. Personally, I don't dislike it. But then I don't dislike the "just use +" answer either.