On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > As I recall this has been discussed at least a few times (unfortunately I'm > traveling so can't check the references), but the justification was never > satisfactory. > > Personally, I wouldn't mind string continuation supported since it makes for > more readable code (I had one of my packages raise a NOTE in examples because > there is no way in R to split a long hash into multiple lines), but I would > be strongly against random removal of whitespaces as it's counter-intuitive, > misleading and makes it impossible to continue spaces on the next line. None > of the languages that I can think of with multiline strings do that as that's > way too dangerous.
Julia does, but uses triple quotes: https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/strings/#triple-quoted-string-literals Hadley -- http://hadley.nz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
