History of Idiom 48 > diff from v30 to v31
Edit summary for version 31 by glmdgrielson:
New JS implementation by user [glmdgrielson]
New JS implementation by user [glmdgrielson]
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Version 30
2017-05-27, 22:31:18
Version 31
2017-09-30, 18:27:55
Idiom #48 Multi-line string literal
Assign to variable s a string literal consisting in several lines of text
Idiom #48 Multi-line string literal
Assign to variable s a string literal consisting in several lines of text
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let longString1 = "This is a very long string which needs " +
"to wrap across multiple lines because " +
"otherwise my code is unreadable.";
let longString2 = "This is a very long string which needs \
to wrap across multiple lines because \
otherwise my code is unreadable.";
let longString3 = `This is a very long string which needs
to wrap across multiple lines because
otherwise my code is unreadable.`;
Comments bubble
There is the concatenation method as seen in longString1.
Backslash-newline also works but requires no indentation as seen in longString2.
And ES6 allows so-called "template literals" which allow them by default!