From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2002-07-24T07:19:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax "surprise"

David Douthitt wrote:

> To me, that is not an idiom; this is an idiom:
>  
> foo("This is a really long string.  in fact it is so long \
> that it requires two lines....")
>  
> To me, that makes much more sense.
>  
> David Douthitt
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>
> >>> pbrannan@atdesk.com 7/23/02 3:09PM >>>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:46:37AM +0900, Mike Hall wrote:
> >   - compile time string concatenation, "hello" "world" => "helloworld"
> > 
> > I know that some other popular languages like to do that,
> > but I think it would be better to leave it as two arguments.
> > After all, someone wrote those two literals separately on purpose.
>
> The following is a common idiom:
>
>   foo("this is a really long string.  in fact, it is so long " \
>       "that I have to wrap onto multiple lines.")
>
> Paul
>
>
I find that aligning code via white-space makes it more intelligible.
I don't really care whether one says:
               foo("this is a really long string.  in fact, it is so long  \
that I have to wrap onto multiple lines.")
or
               foo("this is a really long string.  in fact, it is so long
 that I have to wrap onto multiple lines.")
I dislike the second half of the string starting at the beginning of the 
line.  And I don't really care whether one says:
               foo("this is a really long string.  in fact, it is so 
long \n"
                        "that I have to wrap onto multiple lines.")
or
               foo("this is a really long string.  in fact, it is so 
long \n"
                   + " that I have to wrap onto multiple lines.")

They both preserve indentation.

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