Ticket #0002211

Type	Issue	Status	submitted	Date	30-Mar-2015 06:26
Version	r3 master	Category	Unspecified	Submitted by	fork
Platform	All	Severity	major	Priority	normal

Summary	Rethink Newline and Indentation Handling in multi-line strings
Description	It is often the case that one wishes to use a multi-line string in indented code. What looks the best would be: list [ item { This is multi-line content For this particular list item } ] Despite looking the best, that is throwing in a leading newline, a trailing newline, and 12 space characters at the start of each line. It is more likely that the author intended to get string data equivalent to: "This is multi-line content^\|For this particular list item" One current choice is to express the string as: list [ item {This is multi-line content For this particular list item} ] But a better choice would seem to be to assume that if an open brace has no non-whitespace content after it on a line, it does not suggest a newline...and that if a close brace has no non-whitespace content before it on a line, it does not suggest a newline either. Escaped newlines could be put at the lead or tail of the content, but to keep the first characters "pretty" an escape on the opening brace could be done via the trick from #2210 as ^\|^ The next step would be to consider the start of content to be aligned with the leftmost character column in the string. The caret-followed-by-space rule could be extended to mark a different starting column: list [ item { This is multi-line content ^ But the caret shows us where it actually begins } ] In this extension of the rule, the caret marks the column and thus counts as a space itself. It could be on a single line, or on every line for clarity. Alignment-wise, this isn't as clean when the caret is intended to mark a single space position prior to a non-space character. In those cases, a ^_ escape would need to be used and would add one more "source" character to the string; possibly throwing off the visual alignment. Yet this is likely very uncommon.
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Assigned to	n/a	Fixed in	-	Last Update	31-Mar-2015 04:59

Date	User	Field	Action	Change
31-Mar-2015 04:59	Gregg	Comment : 0004624	Added	-
30-Mar-2015 06:29	Fork	Description	Modified	-
30-Mar-2015 06:26	Fork	Ticket	Added	-