Re: Raw string literals in Emacs lisp.

[Matthew Plant]

Yes, I agree. I suggested it due to a misinterpretation of lisps rules. I would still like to implement #"..." but I'm not sure it would be accepted.

On Friday, July 25, 2014, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
> Matthew Plant writes:
>
>  > What if we assume that any string surrounded immediately by
>  > parenthesis is a raw string literal?
>
> Please don't.  SXEmacs and XEmacs have had rawstring literals for many
> years using the syntax #r"...".  It may not be the best way to do
> this, but it's (Common) Lisp-y, the prefix notation is familiar from
> at least one popular non-Lisp language (Python), and it's about as
> short a notation as you can imagine (I don't recall why #"..." was
> out, though).
>
> Use of parens for this purpose is likely to have wide-ranging
> implications, as it means that they no longer have unambiguous
> semantics, but require lookahead to interpret.