On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 2:59 PM Alex Christensen via webkit-dev < webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> wrote:
Right now, our style checker disapproves of raw string literals, which were introduced in C++11. It complains with this message:
Multi-line string ("...") found. This lint script doesn't do well with such strings, and may give bogus warnings. They're ugly and unnecessary, and you should use concatenation instead".
https://webkit.org/code-style-guidelines/ says nothing on the subject. I find them quite useful and nice, especially with strings that contain lots of quotation marks that would otherwise need escaping. Would anyone oppose to my changing our style checker to allow them if I ever get around to it?
I'm supportive of this proposed change to the style checker. But perhaps the simplest solution is to just get rid of that rule since it's not mentioned anywhere in the style guidelines. - R. Niwa