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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Multi-line string literals (was: What I learned today)
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> On 5/01/2017 12:13 PM, Scott Sauyet wrote:
>> I believe the following argument should clear things up immensely:
>>
>> [Swahili for “It is impossible to separate form and content”]
>>
>> HTH,
> 
> On the contrary. It should be:
> 
> [“… mau$hui”]

Serendipitously, your little OT exchange had a tangible benefit:

It led me to find out that, starting with ECMAScript 2016, there is, 
*finally*, a more convenient, Python-like way to write multi-line string 
literals than to suffix each line with “\n\”: template literals.

<http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/#sec-template-literal-lexical-components>

Note that the characters produced by the /LineTerminatorSequence/ production 
are allowed to occur *unescaped* in such a literal.

Therefore, the ECMAScript 2016 program (which can be executed conveniently 
in, e.g., the Chrome DevTools console already)

  var argScott = `01010011
01000111
01000110
01110000
01100100
00110010
01010110
00110110
01011010
01010111
01110100
01101000
01100010
01101101
01101011
01100111
01011010
01101101
00111001
01110100
01100100
01010011
01000010
00110000
01100010
00110010
01011010
01101000
01100100
01011000
01010010
01110000
01001001
01000111
00110101
01101000
01001001
01000111
00110001
01101000
01100100
01010111
01010010
01101111
01100100
01010111
01101011
00111101`;

  var argAndrew = `01010011
01000111
01000110
01110000
01100100
00110010
01010110
00110110
01011010
01010111
01110100
01101000
01100010
01101101
01101011
01100111
01011010
01101101
00111001
01110100
01100100
01010011
01000010
00110000
01100010
00110010
01011010
01101000
01100100
01011000
01010010
01110000
01001001
01000111
00110101
01101000
01001001
01000111
00110001
01101000
01100100
01010011
01010010
01101111
01100100
01010111
01101011
00111101`;

  console.log(window.atob(argScott.split("\n").map(
    (i) => String.fromCharCode(parseInt(i, 2))
  ).join("")));

  console.log(window.atob(argAndrew.split("\n").map(
    (i) => String.fromCharCode(parseInt(i, 2))
  ).join("")));

is syntactically valid and functionally equivalent to the Python program
I would have written instead:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from base64 import b64decode

argScott = """01010011
01000111
…"""

argAndrew = """01010011
01000111
…"""

print(b64decode("".join(
  [chr(int(i, 2)) for i in argScott.split("\n")]
)))

print(b64decode("".join(
  [chr(int(i, 2)) for i in argAndrew.split("\n")]
)))

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------

However, that aside, Andrew, I do not follow your “argument”.  Is there a 
“$” character in Swahili?  Because that appears to be the only difference 
between your “argument” and Scott’s.

BTW: You are welcome, and Happy New Year.

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