On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Colin Putney <co...@wiresong.com> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.mira...@gmail.com>wrote: > > >> David Leibs has been pushing a well-thought-through facility he calls >> (and other systems name) "quasi-quote". Here, a string literal contains >> escape sequences, a little like printf, that allow one to substitute >> values. Dave's syntax uses square brackets to escape into Smalltalk. >> > > That's certainly a useful construct, but I don't think it addresses > Terry's problem. He wants a string literal that can include $' and CR > without escaping. Something like HEREDOC or Python's triple-double-quote > string literals. > If I had a brain I would have remembered the syntax and hence that it does address Terry's point. The quote character for quasi-quote is ` (back tick), so single ticks are literal inside a quasi-quote. <blush>Sorry</blush> > > Colin > > > > -- best, Eliot
