Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Paul Eggert]

Andy Moreton wrote:
> is there a good reason why the
> documentation is a string containing escapes rather than a sexp using
> the normal quoting mechanisms ?

One good reason is inertia. :-)  There's a lot of code dealing with docstrings; 
e.g., they can be in C code as well as in Lisp, and are processed specially by 
source transformation.  That being said, how would the sexps work, and why would 
they be an improvement?  Can you give an example?