From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from aibo.runbox.com (aibo.runbox.com [91.220.196.211]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 209353870856 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2020 05:24:59 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 209353870856 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=bothner.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=per@bothner.com Received: from [10.9.9.74] (helo=submission03.runbox) by mailtransmit02.runbox with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jrafZ-0001uo-CC; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 07:24:57 +0200 Received: by submission03.runbox with esmtpsa [Authenticated alias (524175)] (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) id 1jrafN-0003Qh-I3; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 07:24:45 +0200 Subject: Re: Working with string keys in a java.util.Map To: Duncan Mak Cc: "kawa@sourceware.org" References: <31504.1593813177@localhost> <68f1a45a-173d-aa66-298e-599c37cd93dc@bothner.com> From: Per Bothner Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 22:24:42 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_SHORT, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: kawa@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Kawa mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2020 05:25:00 -0000 On 7/3/20 9:04 PM, Duncan Mak via Kawa wrote: > What do you think of having literal syntax for this -- what about $"this is > a java string"? No, I don't think we need or want a special literal syntax for Java strings. > This is kinda inspired by what Scala did a little while again: > https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/string-interpolation.html You might want to check out: https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/String-literals.html#String-templates -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/