[Python-ideas] Implicit String Concatenation

Jan Kanis jan.kanis at phil.uu.nl
Thu Apr 12 11:53:58 CEST 2007


On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:54:11 +0200, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> | what I'm proposing is the following:
> |
> | x = 'foo
> |     'bar
> |     'baz'
>
> -1 Looks ugly to me ;-)

Indeed, I don't really like this syntax. I do like if there'd be a way to  
spell 'multiline string with indentation chopped off'. The easiest way  
(syntax-wise) would be to just have tripple quote do that, but that's  
gonna give backward compat problems.

Jan



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