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> 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.
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Twey • last Monday at 1:41 AM
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.
Why couldn't you have it?
You just put the ending """ where you want it relative to the content.