[stringtemplate-interest] "\n" goes away

[Koerner, Ron]

> On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:41:47PM -0700, Bill Venners wrote:
> >> Hi Terence,
> >>
> >> How about a newline keyword? Something like:
> >>
> >> <expr; separator=newline>
> >>
> >> Verbose, and an extra keyword, but clear.
> >
> > Hi Bill, how would you then write a separator of 'two 
> spaces, followed
> > by a newline, follwed by a single tab character, followed 
> by two more
> > spaces'??
> 
> Ah. good point. now it would be:
> 
> separator={ <\n> }
> 
> I guess that's not horrible, but...
> 
> Ter

What about both? Allow:

   <expr; sep=nl>

for easy/common case, as well as:

   <expr; sep={  <\n><\t>  }

for the uncommon case, as well as:

   mailsep() ::= "$\n$> "

   $expr; sep=mailsep$


Actually you could combine first and last case by defining a always accessible template named "nl" which consists just of a newline.
This would not require but benefit greatly by multiple inheritance (mis)used to include general utility template libraries which was discussed in another post.

Regards,
Ron
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