Re: multilines strings "a la python"

[Algaba]

it's just a matter of ease of use, the simplest method by far is:
"""
text verbatim to be copied
"""

Since prolog is a great language for text processing, there are *lots* 
of strings.
It's a bit contradictory not to have the easiest method for long 
strings  in the toolset.


Having said this, I'll keep using gprolog, it's simply an inconvenience 
to insert "\n\" back
and  forth.

El 02/02/15 09:45, Ulrich Neumerkel escribió:
> Jose:
> > Unfortunately that text contains extra spaces which are not removed so that
> > is not a solution in general. Would ISO allow using `...` as multiline
> > string delimiter?
> What is the use case for having significant spaces at the end of a
> line *and* the need to see the text structure verbatim.  This is
> certaintly not the text of a programming language where only trailing
> spaces are not significant except for continuation lines in strings.
>
> The syntax of back quoted string (* 6.4.7 *) is defined already.  So
> if you want an extension using them you have to use that syntax and
> maybe only recognize a subset of it as a valid extension.  The syntax
> is essentially the same of the double quoted list tokken (* 6.4.6 *)
> and quoted token (* 6.4.2 *).