Proposal: Embedded Expressions for String Statements

[phil swenson]

funny, i just joined the list specifically to ask about this subject.

why not just copy the groovy implementation of this?   $var or ${expresion} ?
in groovy it would be:
"[$field1, $field2, $field3]"

or with the explicit expression syntax:
"[${field1}, ${field2}, ${field3}]"


I hate escape characters :)


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Schulz, Stefan <schulz at e-spirit.de> wrote:
> The concat-variant to me is even worse readable than the original +-notation, having three consecutive commas in between.
> The proposal already mentions concatenation of any kind as alternative, although not mentioning concat(). Maybe worth expanding.
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> Stefan
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rssh at gradsoft.com.ua [mailto:rssh at gradsoft.com.ua]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:58 PM
>> To: Howard Lovatt
>> Cc: coin-dev at openjdk.java.net; Schulz, Stefan
>> Subject: Re: Proposal: Embedded Expressions for String Statements
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>> > I like Stefan's proposed syntax and as a way of a motivating example
>> > consider writing a toString method that gives the field
>> values within
>> > square brackets, now you would write:
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>> >     "[" + field1 + ", " + field2 + ", " + field3 + "]"
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>> > With the proposal you would say:
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>> >     "[\{field1}, \{field2}, \{field3}]"
>> >
>> > Which I find clearer.
>> >
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>> Just note: now we can use much cleaner
>>  concat( field1, ',' , field2, ',' field3 )
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>> > Many thanks to Stefan for writing this up formally.
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