On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Christian Tismer <tismer@stackless.com> wrote:
So if there was some notation (not specified yet how) that triggers correct indentation at compile time without extra functional hacks, so that
long_text = """ this text is left justified and this line indents by two spaces """
is stripped the leading and trailing \n and indentation is justified, then I think the need for the implicit whitespace operator would be small.
Through participating in this thread, I've realised that the distinction between when I use a triple quoted string (with or without textwrap.dedent()) and when I use implicit string concatenation is whether or not I want the newlines in the result. Often I can avoid the issue entirely by splitting a statement into multiple pieces, but
... not always. (Sorry, got distracted and left the sentence unfinished). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia