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Comment by deergomoo | Hacker News Reader

Interesting choice for the inline code option in the examples to parse the COBOL out of a comment in the string representation of a function. Especially considering the JSDoc suggests it also accepts a plain string. Would love to know the reason for that.

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It’s an old trick for pleasant-ish multi-line strings from before node/JavaScript had `backticks`. You can stringify the function and parse the string out of the embedded comment.

We used to use a library (multiline) to write SQL strings in Node.

    const str = multiline(()=>{/*
    <!doctype html>
    <html>
        <body>
            <h1> unicorns</h1>
        </body>
    </html>
    */});

https://www.npmjs.com/package/multiline

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