[stringtemplate-interest] "\n" goes away

[Bill Venners]

Hi Terence,

How about a newline keyword? Something like:

<expr; separator=newline>

Verbose, and an extra keyword, but clear.

Bill

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
> Hi, i allowed
>
> <expr; separator="\n">
>
> previously to mean newline separator, but that makes no sense.  "\n"
> is a 2 char sequence just like it is in between template expressions.
> But making you do
>
> <expr; separator={<\n>}>
>
> is a bit long.  It's *always* comma or newline. seems we should make
> it easier to say.  we use it constantly.
>
> As far as i can tell, we have these options: wrap, anchor, null,
> separator, format.  Is there a better way to do those too?  How would
> we do this differently?
>
> <values; anchor, wrap="\n", separator=",">
>
> Ideas?  I've wrestled with this for years and can't come up with
> better syntax.
>
> Ter
>
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