Re: Better string constants

2013/2/28 Carl Gay <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Alfredo Beaumont
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> An alternative syntax could be provided to avoid abusing escaping:
>>
>> """
>> A: {
>>        a: "a"
>>        b: "b"
>>        c: "c"
>> }
>> """
>>
>> If coil works as shown by bruce i don't even think the alternative
>> syntax is too important.
>> I also don't think a raw syntax is worth a new syntax.
>
>
> I'm confused.  It looks like you're suggesting that """ would be used for
> raw strings.

No, """ would be an alternative syntax for ", just to avoid the need
for abusing escaping double quotes:

"#(\"a\",\"b\",\"c\")" = """#("a","b","c")"""

but still:

"\\n" = """\\n"""

I don't think a raw syntax is worth the effort, since I don't think
they are used too often, but i might be wrong.
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