JAVA TEXT BLOCK Guideline 5

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JAVA TEXT BLOCK Guideline 5

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Avoid aligning the opening and closing delimiters and the text block's left margin. This requires reindentation of the text block if the variable name or modifiers are changed.

// ORIGINAL
String string = """
                red
                green
                blue
                """;

// ORIGINAL - after variable declaration changes
static String rgbNames = """
                         red
                         green
                         blue
                         """;

// BETTER
String string = """
    red
    green
    blue
    """;

// BETTER - after variable declaration changes
static String rgbNames = """
    red
    green
    blue
    """;