Re: multi-line Strings

From:
Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:36:55 -0800
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On 12/10/12 8:43 AM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 12/10/2012 11:22 AM, bob smith wrote:

Should something be added to the Java language to make multi-line
Strings more clear?

Maybe like what PHP has?

Right now, I have a mess like this:

     private final String mLomoishShader =
             "precision mediump float;\n" +
             "uniform sampler2D tex_sampler_0;\n" +


It could be added.

PHP has it. C# has it.

But I would not consider it a high priority.

It is most useful for demo code.

For real code then large chunks of texts would usually
be stored externally (file, DB etc.) not embedded into
the code.

+1
That definitely looks like it should be in a separate file. If the
shader is closely related to the class which contains that declaration,
I would look into using Class.getResourceAsStream() to load it.

If the class itself can be made to use any shader, I would externalize
it entirely, passing the shader text as a construction parameter perhaps.

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