Re: [Yaml-core] building up strings?

[Clark C. E. <cc...@cl...>]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:21:53PM +0200, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
| Clark C. Evans wrote:
| > You can use double quoted strings:
| > 
| > url: "http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.Projects/Space.Science/\
| > Universe/Advanced.Composition.Explorer.ACE/.index.html"
| >
| > but this kinda sucks beacuse it breaks indentation.
| 
| Nope: that's illegal YAML. The second line must be more-indented:
| 
| url: "http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.Projects/Space.Science/\
|  Universe/Advanced.Composition.Explorer.ACE/.index.html"

Of course, since l-l-inner-double-line starts with
i-s-ignored-leading one could use any amount of 
leading indentation, *generates stupid Clark look*

  url: "http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.Projects/Space.Science/\
        Universe/Advanced.Composition.Explorer.ACE/.index.html"

This does imply, of course that if you need to "break" a line
with the double quoted version with extra spaces, you escape 
the space character,

  this: "here are => \
        \ <= two spaces."

  equals: 'here are ==>  <== two spaces'

| > I seem to remember discussing a while back about having the 
| > quoted style variants imply concatenation (like python and many 
| > other languages):
| 
| No need to.

Only that one is then limited to strictly the double quoted style,
certainly good enough for me.

*bings*

Best,

Clark