On 2011-06-30 13:12, Walter Bright wrote: > On 6/30/2011 12:27 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > "Walter Bright"<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message > > news:iuig3e$2m1k$1...@digitalmars.com... > > > >> Back ticks are used for D raw string literals, and I now think that was > >> a mistake. > > > > What would you have used instead? > > D has other methods for raw literals, so the ` are not only ugly, they're > redundant.
Actually, I find the backticks to be by far the most pleasant way to get raw strings in D. I don't particularly like the other syntaxes for it (particularly q{}). It may be that other considerations make it so that it would have been better not to use backticks for raw strings, but I really like it, and I use them all the time. - Jonathan M Davis