Re: backslashes and r-strings r"abc"

Martin Christensen <[email protected]>:

> As I see it, the best alternative to the usual way of handling escape
> characters is for Strings to have a 'process escape characters' method

Another way would be to have a set of constants like
tab, newline, etc. and build up strings with these:

 "hello" + tab + "world" + newline

For best results the compiler would constant-fold this
into a single string literal.

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