Often, I have a long string literal (e.g. some sort of message). If the literal is long enough, I either have to let the line be really long (bad style) or break the string into two strings and concatenate them somehow. This is fairly annoying.
To improve ergonomics, I propose that we allow syntactically splitting string literals as follows:
let s = "a long string lit";
// should be equivalent to
let s = "a long" " string lit";
// or
let s = "a "
"long "
"string "
"lit";
This would allow long string literals to be broken over multiple lines and indented/formatted nicely.
The only parsing ambiguity I can see is for macros that already accept things like foo!("a" "long string lit")
.
Any feedback appreciated.