My thinking here was two-fold: 1) Address the need to accommodate the lack of regex literals today, and 2) Future-proof the proposal to accommodate the eventuality of regex literals.
-Patrick > On Apr 24, 2016, at 6:09 PM, Chris Lattner <clatt...@apple.com> wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2016, at 12:54 PM, Patrick Gili via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: >> If we use a quoting structure similar to Perl6, then we future proof the >> grammar to accommodate regular expression literals (and multi-line regular >> expression literals) later. It also gives us the possibility for support for >> fine-grain control over escaping and interpolation. > > Wouldn’t the natural regex literal syntax be to enclose them in /’s, e.g. > /foo*/ ? > > I don’t see how this proposal conflicts with that. > > -Chris > _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
