String reboot - (1a) incidental whitespace
Brian Goetz
brian.goetz at oracle.com
Sun Apr 14 14:08:27 UTC 2019
> Part (1)
> added multi line strings without complication - the simplest language
> change that could work.
Indeed it did. And maybe it is the right answer (clearly you think so.). It surely is better in every way than what we have now, so we’re on a good track.
> Most people were happy with that
If only.
In the first round, _many_ people complained “Why do I have to explicitly ask for alignment? Why can’t the language figure it out for me?” The claim that “most people were happy with that” is simply incorrect. Maybe in the end, we’re still going to make them unhappy (surely we will make _some people_ unhappy); if so, so be it, but we will have explored all the alternatives and weighed pros and cons before making a decision.
So, we’re going to have the conversation. In the end, we may well decide that explicit is better. But it sounds like you’re trying to tell us we shouldn’t have that conversation, and that’s not OK.
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