[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Do we keep "\\" in xwiki syntax 2.0?

7 Jan 2009

Hi,

We need to decide if we want to keep the "\\" syntax since now  
newlines are significant.

There are two use cases I can see:

1) If we want to allow users to enter empty paragraphs (using \\):

some para
\\
still the same para

another para

2) Using \\ in scripts

For example:

#set ($var = "hello\\world")
$var

note that a possibility is to use the following which is less nice IMO:
#set ($var = "hello${xwiki.nl}world")

So here's my +1 to keep "\\" syntax.

Thanks
-Vincent
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