For those of us that haven't used Java for a decade...

> In text blocks, the leftmost non-whitespace character on any of the lines or the leftmost closing delimiter defines where meaningful white space begins.

From https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/text-blocks-come-...

It's not a bad option but it does mean you can't have text where every line is indented. This isn't uncommon - e.g. think about code generation of a function body.

Why couldn't you have it?

You just put the ending """ where you want it relative to the content.

Ah I see - didn't notice it includes the trailing """. Tbh I still prefer Zig's solution. It's more obvious. (Though they should have picked a less intrusive prefix, I'd have gone with a backtick.)

Right, this is a pretty common syntax, but doesn't address the same problem as Zig's syntax.

I've only seen two that do: the Zig approach, and a postprocessing ‘dedent’ step.