> To disentangle the incidental and essential indentation, we can imagine drawing the smallest possible rectangle around the XML snippet that contains the entir

> To disentangle the incidental and essential indentation, we can imagine drawing the smallest possible rectangle around the XML snippet that contains the entire snippet, and treating the contents of this rectangle as a two-dimensional block of text. This "magic rectangle" is the contents of the text block, and reflects the relative indentation between the lines of the block but ignores any indentation that is an artifact of how the program is indented. Well, I'll withhold judgement somewhat until I eventually use this feature for a little while, but based on the description this is simply too complex, which is disappointing. Who exactly was asking for the "magical rectangle" approach, anyway? Or incidental vs essential indentation? They did too much. And given how long people have been waiting for simple multi-line strings, and how many other languages already have them, I'm not sure how this got messed up.