multiline quotes using """ ... """

[StefanKarpinski]

Stolen from Python but with some differences:

function jabberwock()
  """
  'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
  All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.
  """
end

julia> print(jabberwock())
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

The point of the """ construct is to make it easy to embed snippets of text or code in a readable, nice way inside of Julia code. To that end, it is similar to here documents as well as Python's multiline strings, which use the same delimiters. However, a couple of semantics make these easier to use:

• If the initial """ is on a line followed only by whitespace, that whitespace (including newline) will be stripped.
• Lines following the opening """ token must begin with the same indentation sequence (identical whitespace characters).
• The common indentation will be stripped from each follow-up line.

After these transformations are applied, all normal string interpretation is performed. Moreover, you can prefix """ with an identifier as you can with " strings to invoke macro-based custom-string forms. Thus, a Q""" multiline string has no interpolation performed and a r""" is a multiline regex literal (should maybe automatically switch on some flags).

[StefanKarpinski]

This a duplicate issue caused by some sort of github fuckup. Closing.