OpenEuphoria

Re: Interpreter Mod We Can All Get Behind

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at ?griculture.go?v.fr> Nov 22, 2007
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Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> Btw, what is the deal with newlines in a triple quote?
> One thing I would probably use it for is help/messagebox text, which is always
> a right pain with the " and \n"& requirements, especially if they break your
> stride/concentration when explaining something difficult.
> In this case, I would want the newlines, is this what others expect?
> Eg
> """
> one
> two
> three
> """
> is "one\ntwo\nthree\n" not "one two three".
> 

That's what I expect from a "verbatim string". Exactly what <pre>...</pre> does
in HTML. I didn't fully understand Gary's point about text substitution, very
likely because I don't speak Perl.

> Gary Shingles wrote:
> > 
> > The other option I liked was the one Derek mentioned from D, automatically 
> > concatenating sequential character strings.
> 
> I have a couple of problems with that.
> 1) It is no easier to convert:
> 
> The quick brown fox 
> jumped over the lazy dog
> 
> to:
> 
> "The quick brown fox "
> "jumped over the lazy dog"
> 
> than it is to convert it to:
> 
> "The quick brown fox "&
> "jumped over the lazy dog"
> 
> Obviously it gets messier when you've got dozens or hundreds of lines.
> Conversely, to triple quote is +6 chars total no matter how many lines.
> 
> 2) If you write, say
> }}}
<eucode>
>   constant words = {"ONE",
>                     "TWO",
>                     "THREE"
>                     "FOUR",
>                     "FIVE"}
> </eucode>
{{{

> then words[4] will be "FIVE". If anything, I'd prefer it to treat a missing
> comma as if it had found one.
> 

Agreed.

> Regards,
> Pete