[Blackarea]

We can just use a crate for that and don't have to have this horrible comment like style that brings its own category of problems. https://docs.rs/indoc/latest/indoc/

[Twey]

And what if you do want to include two spaces at the beginning of the block (but not any of the rest of the indentation)?

Choice of specific line-start marker aside, I think this is the best solution to the indented-string problem I've seen so far.

[gf000]

I think Java's solution is much cleaner.

[IshKebab]

For those of us that haven't used Java for a decade...

> In text blocks, the leftmost non-whitespace character on any of the lines or the leftmost closing delimiter defines where meaningful white space begins.

From https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/text-blocks-come-...

It's not a bad option but it does mean you can't have text where every line is indented. This isn't uncommon - e.g. think about code generation of a function body.

[gf000]

Why couldn't you have it?

You just put the ending """ where you want it relative to the content.

[IshKebab]

Ah I see - didn't notice it includes the trailing """. Tbh I still prefer Zig's solution. It's more obvious. (Though they should have picked a less intrusive prefix, I'd have gone with a backtick.)

[Twey]

Right, this is a pretty common syntax, but doesn't address the same problem as Zig's syntax.

I've only seen two that do: the Zig approach, and a postprocessing ‘dedent’ step.