# Significant Whitespace at the End of Multiline String

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**Created:** [May 14, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/significant-whitespace-at-the-end-of-multiline-string/12675 "2018-05-14T22:51:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/significant-whitespace-at-the-end-of-multiline-string/12675/13 "2018-05-15T12:14:07Z")

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> [@DevAndArtist](#):
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> Feel free to prepare a draft proposal.

Let’s not put the carriage before the horse. First I would like to hear some feedback from original proposal authors and implementers (@johnno1962, @beccadax, @rintaro), maybe there’s a reason for the third rule I’m not seeing…  
It would also help if somebody from core team (@Joe_Groff, @Chris_Lattner3) could recall the reasoning that made them support the third rule “[in this go-around](https://forums.swift.org/t/accepted-se-0182-string-newline-escaping/6355/1)."

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