Re: Better string constants

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Dustin Voss <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Carl Gay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Will the compiler always be able to give good warnings for unterminated
> strings?  I don't see how.   If not, I'd prefer to have the common case
> stay as it is and add new syntax for the less common cases of multi-line
> and raw strings.
>
>
> What do you mean by “good warnings”? The compiler should certainly be able
> to see that it hits the end of the source record with an unterminated
> string.
>
> As far as the BNF goes, the only change necessary to support this would be
> to change the definition of string-character to include newline in addition
> to space.
>

We don't necessarily give good warnings for unterminated strings now:

Serious warning at hello.dylan:7:

Invalid token beginning """ encountered.

hello.dylan:6:              -
hello.dylan:7:   format-out("Hello, world!\n);
hello.dylan:8:              -


 - Bruce

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