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I was all ready to complain about HCL because of the horrible ergonomics of multiline strings, which would be a deal breaker as a default config format. I just

I was all ready to complain about HCL because of the horrible ergonomics of multiline strings, which would be a deal breaker as a default config format. I just looked though and it seems they now support it in a much cleaner fashion. https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/expressions/strings#heredoc-strings https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/expressio... This actually makes me want to give HCL another chance

mdaniel 1y ago
Be careful about linking to terraform docs for HCL, as it can be very easy to blur terraform's implementation of the behaviors from HCL itself https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl/blob/v2.23.0/hclsyntax/spec.md#template-expressions https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl/blob/v2.23.0/hclsyntax/spec... I believe is the actual language specification of heredocs