Re: Better string constants

""" is like Python, which is rather popular, and ``` is similar to Go and
Markdown.  I guess #r""" would be closer to Python's r""" syntax than ```
is though.  I think that speaks in favor of #r""" over ```.

I'm not sure how to interpret your comment about interpolation.  I don't
see any reason to include anything like Ruby's "#{expression}" construct.
 I'd rather address that via a better replacement for "format".

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Bruce Hoult <[email protected]> wrote:

> Unless there's a good reason to do otherwise, I'd suggest not being
> gratuitously different to popular languages, and in particular Ruby.
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Syntax/Literals
>
> I'd love this to extend as far as interpolation (which would be
> auto-expanded to a series of concatenated string literals and
> as(<string>, ...) expressions). I'm not so sure about HERE documents.
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Carl Gay <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I really want better string constant syntax in Dylan.  Doing this sort of
> > thing...
> >
> >   parse-coil("A: {\n"
> >              "    a: 'a'\n"
> >              "    b: 'b'\n"
> >              "    c: 'c'\n"
> >              "}\n"
> >              ...
> > or
> >   "\"5\""
> >
> > is really tedious and error prone.  (Both of the above are from a test
> > suite.)
> >
> > We need two things:
> >   (1) raw string literals
> >   (2) multi-line strings
> >
> > Briefly, my suggestions are:
> > * Use """ for multiline backslash-interpreted strings.
> > * Use ` (backquote) for one-line raw strings.
> > * Use ``` for multi-line raw strings.
> >
> > `"5"` == "\"5\""
> > `\d+\.` == "\\d+\\."
> > ```A: {
> >   a: 'a'
> >   b: 'b'
> >   c: 'c'
> > }``` == the string near the top of this message.
> >
> > While I think it may be possible to use `...` for multi-line raw strings
> (as
> > Go does) it bothers me that there's no way to embed a backquote, and
> also I
> > like having the symmetry of "..." / """...""" and `...` / ```...```.
> >
> > Another possibility I like is #r"..." and #r"""...""" for raw strings.
> >
> > Thoughts/opinions?
>

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