Embed code with minimal escapes a.k.a raw strings

[mat-m]

Hello,

I have a use case, coming from yaml, that is not addressed by toml.
I will use the well-known Ansible use of yaml, coming from a yaml rant:

tasks:
- configure: |
    jit_flags=""
    if [ "$(uname -m)" != "x86_64" ]
    then
        jit_flags=--without-jit
    fi
    ./configure \
        --prefix=/usr \
        $jit_flags
- build: |
    make
- test: |
    make check

Does it work if we use non-interpolated multi-strings like this
In TOML, I would write it like this:

[tasks]
  configure = '''
    jit_flags=""
    if [ "$(uname -m)" != "x86_64" ]
    then
        jit_flags=--without-jit
    fi
    ./configure \
        --prefix=/usr \
        $jit_flags
'''
  build = '''
make
''' 

  test =  '''
make check
'''

Can someone confirm if I'm right or wrong ?
indents, $ and \ will be kept, right ?

I also have one additional question:
I know I cannot indent the closing triple-quote. If I indent the make check command, the resulting string would come with the indentation, right ?

Thank you

[ChristianSi]

Yes, multi-line literal strings are your friend here. As documented, everything will be preserved as is, except that the linebreak right after the opening triple quote will be stripped. If you want to remove indentation from the quoted string, you'll have to do that yourself in a postprocessing step.

[ChristianSi]

As for the "build" and "test" keys, considering that the values are so short, I'd just use single-line literal or basic strings there. But of course, do you do that as you want.

[mat-m]

I do agree, it was for the sake of the example, and also because some people prefer to have the same syntax on all blocks, so you can add some data in it without thinking of the wrapping.