Multiline string literal improvements

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2017-10-11 10:35, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/10/2017 3:16 PM, sarn wrote:
>> Works even better in D because it can run at compile time.
> 
> Yes, I see no need for a language feature what can be easily and far 
> more flexibly done with a regular function - especially since what |q{ 
> and -q{ do gives no clue from the syntax.

Unfortunately it doesn't work for the other multiline syntax:

void main()
{
     auto a = q"FOO
         int b = 3;
     FOO";
}

The above fails to compile [1]. The trailing FOO cannot be indented. 
This works:

void main()
{
     auto a = q"FOO
         int b = 3;
FOO";
}

Which in my opinion doesn't look as good as the first example. It gets 
worse if "a" is indented even more, because it's nested in a class, in a 
method, in an if statement and so on.

[1] main.d(3,14): Error: unterminated delimited string constant starting 
at main.d(3,15)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg