[Scilab-Dev] strings cannot be cut into several lines

[Antoine ELIAS]

Hello Eric,

In Scilab 5, you could write strings on multiple lines using ... but not 
only, it worked with everything.

-->1..
-->2
  ans  =

     12.

and more horrible

-->fun..
-->ction toto(..
-->)
-->disp("fu..
-->nction");
-->endf...
-->unction

-->toto()

  function

In fact "..." are used to ignore the following end line.

I hope you can understand we want to remove this kind of coding style.
To replace ... for strings case can you use + operator.

-->"string1 and ...
-->string2"

become

-->"string1 and " + ...
-->"string2"
  ans  =

  string1 and string2

Antoine
Le 08/09/2018 à 10:41, Éric Dubois a écrit :
> Hello
>
> Can someone explain me why in Scilab 6, you cannot wirte a string on 
> several lines each line ending by "..."?
>
> When you have a very long string, you have 2 choices that are not 
> appealing:
> - write this string on a line, which is not very readable;
> - define several strings covering different components of the string 
> and then add them to build your string, which is a time consuming.
>
> This change makes my productivity when programming in Scilab decline 
> and I do not see teh drawbacks that the old working entailed.
>
> Thansk for your answer.
>
> Regards
>
> Éric
>
>
>
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