[stringtemplate-interest] leading/trailing whitespace trimmed

[brian]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
>
>  On Apr 8, 2008, at 2:58 AM, brian wrote:
>
> > I think org.antlr.stringtemplate.StringTemplate(java.lang.String
> > template) is trimming leading and trailing whitespace. Is it? Should
> > it? I see a note about ST doing that for file input, but why to
> > Strings?
> >
>
>  Hi. It does it for all templates even those specified with "...".  Easier
> to add whitespace later than to get rid of whitespace.

OK. But it'd be nice if there were a "I really mean for you to use
this exact template, don't mess with it" flag. In fact, I really think
producing what I told it to produce should be the default, and
automatic whitespace removal should be an option. Thanks.