On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Benjamin Striegel <ben.strie...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > I think string literals should contain exactly what they contain in > their source form, without any additional processing. If you want to > express characters that are inconvenient to type, you can use control > sequences and a (standard) formatting library to produce them. > > I'm actually very intrigued by the idea of eliminating escape characters > altogether in the default string literals. Would follow nicely from how we > allow newlines in string literals. We'd have to give up the optional > "whitespace-chomping" behavior around newlines, though, which would make me > pretty sad. And are you really willing to force everyone who wants to > include a quotation mark in a string to go through a syntax extension to do > it? > Yes! It seems to me that many/most string literals are used for in conjunction with various formatting functions anyway, so I wouldn't think it would be a big deal in practice. Throwing in a call to fmt isn't a big burden, imo. -- Sebastian Sylvan
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