OOGenerator

Example0060_PrettySyntax

G-2.0-plain_java-1.0 ⊰ This template demonstrates how to keep your templates readable. There are three tiny syntactic helpers to solve three frequently encountered problems. ⊱ ⊰ To illustrate the first problem, note that between the first comment and the second one (this one) there is a line break. This line break appears not only in the template, but in the output, too. You will want your template being reasonable layouted, while at the same time having nicely layouted results. How to achieve this? First, note the three tiny continuation dots '…' behind the following comment end delimiter: ⊱… ⊰ They simple say: please ignore the line break (they are comparable to the use of a backslash in programming languages like C or C++). ⊱… ⊰ Another problem often encountered is the indentation depth mismatch between template code and result code. E.g. ⊱… Hello, world! ⊰ is of course indented in the output by 30 spaces. How to avoid this, without compromising template layout? That's the purpose of the indentation character '⋮', like here ⊱… ⋮Hello, world! ⊰ The '⋮' character says: please ignore every whitespace between it and the beginning of the line. So, if you combine these concepts, you might e.g. write ⊱… ⋮Hello, … ⋮◂"world"▸… ⋮!… ⊰ which creates again "Hello, world!", without any additional spaces or line breaks before, after of within the output. ⊱… ⊰ And finally, sometimes you may need the contrary of the continuation dots: a linebreak in the output, but not in the template. This is the purpose of the 'Return' sign '⏎'. The following code produces 50 emtpy lines in the output: ⊱… ⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎⏎