Comments for http://horstmann.com/unblog/2018-06-01/index.html

Wow first I thought this: "enclose the string in a sequence of backticks that is longer than the longest sequence inside" was really clever, ... until I saw this the example:

"`" + ``alert("JavaScript")```

which I'm not sure if I understand correctly :- P
not really what one wants one's colleagues to spend their time thinking about.

I like Scala's approach where one can define one's own x""" .... """ string prefixes, and have them be like Raw Strings or Blending In strings or whatever :- ) I created one named i which is supposed to mean "indented string", and it trims all spaces up to the | on each line. (Source here.) Here's an example, namely some inline Yaml for ElasticSearch:

  val IndexSettings = i"""
    |number_of_shards: 5
    |number_of_replicas: 1
    |analysis:
    |  analyzer:
    |    HtmlSnowball:
    |      type: custom
    |      tokenizer: standard
    |      filter: [standard, lowercase, stop, snowball]
    |      char_filter: [HtmlStrip]
    |  char_filter :
    |    HtmlStrip :
    |      type : html_strip
    |#     escaped_tags : [xxx, yyy]  -- what's this?
    |#     read_ahead : 1024        -- what's this?
    |"""

( & no need to wonder about tabs & spaces :- ))