Re: Pike 8.0 RC1

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Stephen R. van den Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>Yeah, for precisely the same ambiguity I was worrying about. But the
>>more verbiage is included, the less useful it'll be. I do like the
>>idea of a raw string literal - one that doesn't need all its
>>backslashes escaped - but I don't expect to be nesting them more than
>>three deep.
>
> I don't think that will detract from its usefulness.  The requirement is that
> the delimiter is unique, accomplishing that using delimiters that have to
> adhere to a certain syntax does not limit that in any significant way.

Right, but I'm happy with #{ #[ #( triple nesting #) #] #} rather than
#[x]{ #[y]{ unlimited nesting #[y]} #[x]} - the former is sufficiently
clean to be useful, the latter feels noisy and heavy. The #x{ #y{
potentially-ambiguous syntax #y} #x} is somewhere in between.

ChrisA