Re: [PATCH] Interpret #r"..." as a raw string

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I have seen it called a "raw string literal" in other languages.

The concept of "literal" does not fit Lisp very well.  It describe the
situation with other languages, where expressions are not objects,
only syntax.  In those languages, you don't put a string into your
program, only a "literal" which represents a string value.

In Lisp, what you put in the program _is_ a string.  What you write
in the textual code is not a "literal", it is the textual representation
of the string to put in the program.

I just saw that the term "literal" appears occasionally in the Emacs
Lisp Ref Manual.  Would someone like to rewrite those parts so that they
fit the concepts of Lisp batter?


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