> On 15 Aug 2017, at 5:22 am, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> put {{
> That's better!
> A really readable and short
> version that I can deal with.
> }} into temp
It’s really unlikely we would use { } because one day we will want to implement
array literals. You know one time I messed with the server tag code in the
parser so that reverse server tags could be used for this ;-)
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=25339
<http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=25339>
That of course would never pass the sniff test!
Anyway, if I might propose an alternative of allowing the line continuation
char (which happens to be escape) within strings. The sequence \ & return &
<any number of spaces> would be replaced with just return in the string.
Something like this:
put “foo\
bar”
would put:
foo
bar
Of course if you need leading whitespace then that’s a bit trickier but the
above could be relatively easily implemented in both the script editor and the
parser.
Cheers
Monte
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