String reboot - (1a) incidental whitespace

[Liam Miller-Cushon]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 6:41 AM Jim Laskey <james.laskey at oracle.com> wrote:

> The first line has no influence and is not affected by the indentation
> provided by the close delimiter influence.
>

Sorry, I may have gotten confused. That seems to be a different approach
than the one Brian described in:

sometimes putting text on that first line is exactly what you want, such as
> in the case where you _dont_ want alignment to muck with your indentation.
> Putting non-blank text on that first line is effectively an opt-out


I still see room for confusion in either approach to handling the first
line, and disallowing string contents on the same line as the opening
delimiter has the potential to file a sharp edge off the feature. As Brian
mentioned that restriction could also be accomplished with a style rule,
but I don't see much downside to including the restriction in the language.

Maybe more interesting is that the both following work as an alternative
> pattern;


    String m = """I won’t
                  get any alignment
                  (except maybe NL normalization)
                  """;

My concern is that you can't tell from reading the code whether that works
because the implementation ignores the first line, or because it uses the
column position for re-indentation, so you might expect it to be equivalent
to:

    String m = """    I won’t
                      get any alignment
                      (except maybe NL normalization)
                      """;
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