Re: [Vala] """Verbatim strings""" vs. "string" "literal" "concatenation"

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

Hi, but what is a verbatim string?

is it something similiar to 
#define QUOTE(x) #x
?

Yu
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:02 +0200, Frederik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have seen that the current Vala SVN trunk now supports verbatim
> strings. That's a nice feature, but I think that the chosen triple
> double-quote syntax could conflict with another feature I would love to
> see in Vala someday: string literal concatenation. This would allow more
> beautiful syntax formatting of long or multi-line strings, for example:
> 
> string my_string = "This is the first half of the string,\n"
>                     "this is the second half";
> 
> But in that case """verbatim string""" would be interpreted as
> "" (+) "verbatim string" (+) "".
> 
> The C# syntax is @"verbatim string", but I don't know if that would
> conflict with the Vala syntax for using reserved keywords.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Frederik
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