Draft language spec for JEP 355: Text Blocks

[Alex Buckley]

On 5/21/2019 5:30 AM, Jim Laskey wrote:
> TextBlock:
>
> " " " { the ASCII SP character } LineTerminator { TextBlockCharacter } " " "
>
>   "the ASCII SP character" in the open delimiter is currently
> implemented as any "white space" but not a line terminator. Later on you
> state "zero or more white spaces".

Thank you for this clarification. I agree that a text-block-only form of 
"white space" -- spaces, tabs, form feeds -- can legitimately appear 
after the """. I have added a production and narrative to capture this.

> The string represented by a text block is /not/ the literal sequence of
> characters in the content. Instead, the string represented by a text
> block is the result of processing the content, as follows:
>
> I think this could be reworded so that the importance of order is made
> clear. Later on you state "Interpreting escape sequences last allows",
> but it's still not clear the order of 1 & 2 is important. In the JEP we
> described them as "steps". Stages might work as well.

A numbered list in the JLS traditionally means in-order processing, but 
for the avoidance of doubt I have said "... the result of applying the 
following transformations to the content, in order:"

Alex