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Allow new-lines in all interpolations

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Summary

The language today non-verbatim and verbatim interpolated strings ($"" and $@"" respectively). The primary sensible difference for these is that a non-verbatim interpolated string works like a normal string and cannot contain newlines in its text segments, and must instead use escapes (like \r\n). Conversely, a verbatim interpolated string can contain newlines in its text segments (like a verbatim string), and doesn't escape newlines or other character (except for "" to escape a quote itself).

This is all reasonable and will not change with this proposal.

What is unreasonable today is that we extend the restriction on 'no newlines' in a non-verbatim interpolated string beyond its text segments into the interpolations themselves. This means, for example, that you cannot write the following:

var v = $"Count is\t: { this.Is.A.Really(long(expr))
                            .That.I.Should(
                                be + able)[
                                    to.Wrap()] }.";

Ultimately, the 'interpolation must be on a single line itself' rule is just a restriction of the current implementation. That restriction really isn't necessary, and can be annoying, and would be fairly trivial to remove (see work dotnet/roslyn#54875 to show how). In the end, all it does is force the dev to place things on a single line, or force them into a verbatim interpolated string (both of which may be unpalatable).

The interpolation expressions themselves are not text, and shouldn't be beholden to any escaping/newline rules therin.

Specification change

single_regular_balanced_text_character
-    : '<Any character except / (U+002F), @ (U+0040), \" (U+0022), $ (U+0024), ( (U+0028), ) (U+0029), [ (U+005B), ] (U+005D), { (U+007B), } (U+007D) and new_line_character>'
-    | '</ (U+002F), if not directly followed by / (U+002F) or * (U+002A)>'
+    : <Any character except @ (U+0040), \" (U+0022), $ (U+0024), ( (U+0028), ) (U+0029), [ (U+005B), ] (U+005D), { (U+007B), } (U+007D)>
+    | comment
    ;

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https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2021/LDM-2021-09-20.md