Re: Raw string literals in Emacs lisp.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Ted.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 04:54:43PM -0400, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> ....., I just want a simple syntax for literal data :)

> How about using a Unicode character as the marker? (prepares for stoning)

OK, it's taken time, and nobody else looks like they're about to do it,
so I will cast the first stone.

NO, NO, NO, NO!  The only Unicode characters to be used in Emacs are
those that are also ASCII characters, with a tiny number of essential
exceptions (for example, the non-European characters in the sentence-end
regexp, and, of course, people's names in comments).

A Non-ASCII character is difficult to type for most people.  Not all
setups can display it.  Adopting such a character would mean a lot of
work for a lot of people.

And using such characters as delimiters would introduce yet one more
incompatibility with XEmacs which, Stephen informs us, uses #r"..." for
raw strings.  Why not just adapt that convention?  Easy to type, easy to
read, easy to parse.

> Ted

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