Re: Raw string literals in Emacs lisp.

[Tom Tromey]

Matthew> What if we assume that any string surrounded immediately by
Matthew> parenthesis is a raw string literal? I'm pretty sure every
Matthew> instance of ("...") is currently illegal, and it would be
Matthew> almost certainly trivial to extend the Emacs' lexer/parser to
Matthew> support it. I can do it myself if everyone thinks this is a
Matthew> good idea.

That kind of thing is valid in quoted contexts though.

(defvar whatever '("hi"))

FWIW there was a previous discussion about raw strings:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/152132

I think this killed the idea:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/152155

Tom