[stringtemplate-interest] Newbie question

[Terence Parr]

On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Brain, Jim wrote:

> I’m a recent ST user, but I’ve successfully integrated ST into my  
> project (a Template-based XML schema code generator).  I have,  
> though, noticed some things that are not intuitive, even after  
> reading the documentation.
>
> Autoindent?
>
>             StringTemplate st = new StringTemplate("    $reader:{$it$ 
> \n\n}$    $writer:{$it$\n\n}$    stuff");

perhaps you want to use wrap?

> I know I’m falling victim to this: “Indentation can only occur at  
> the start of a line so indentation is only tracked in front of  
> attribute expressions following a newline.".  However, adding a  
> newline in front of the second indentation adds an unwanted newline  
> in the resulting code, and it seems problematic to go to a [$reader, 
> $writer] construct to avoid the issue.  Is there a reason why indent  
> cannot be tracked from the end of the last function?

Yep, since it can't compute statically if a \n occurs inside.

Ter