Re: Raw strings (experimental patches inside)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Dmitri Paduchikh writes:

 > I like the Lua way of solving this problem.

So write a Lua-macs.  This is not a good idea for mainline Emacs, for
backward compatibility reasons.

 > They use different characters for string and regexp escaping (\ and
 > % correspondingly).

Definitely % is inappropriate, since it's used for string formatting,
and I've seen many applications of regexps that use regexps built with
`format'.  Talk about huge opportunities for confusion!