Multi line strings?

[eldoy]

Any plans to finish this? Looks interesting. I would use it if there was support for multi line strings. Any idea how you'd want that to look?

[gilbert]

Hey @eldoy! I imagine python's multiline string syntax would do well:

project {
  title Add multiline strings
  descriptionHtml """
    This feature would be
    <b>great</b> to have.
  """
}

Triple quotes seem to be the least conflicting with any longer form text content one would want to write (unless you're writing python code within zaml, I suppose!). Perhaps most notably, it keeps clear of markdown and html.

The other aspect to consider is whitespace. As a developer, I would not want the above to convert to this...

"\n    This feature would be\n    <b>great</b> to have.\n"

The extra indentation whitespace would be annoying to deal with. By default, it should behave like Ruby's squiggly heredoc. The dedent package may be a solution for this.

[eldoy]

@gilbert Yeah, that makes sense, it's also what TOML has. Agree about the white space, that is what annoys me with backtick strings in Javascript, indent should be visual only.

[gilbert]

Multiline strings are in! Let me know if you need a case I didn't cover.

[eldoy]

@gilbert Oh nice, that was quick! I'll check it out. Thanks!