> On Nov 23, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Brent Royal-Gordon <br...@architechies.com> > wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote: > >> Until we figure out that path forward for regex’s, I think they aren’t the >> right motivation for this proposal. > > 1. Even in our shining pattern matching future—a future which I, for one, am > eager to hasten—we will still need to interoperate with NSRegularExpression > and other Perl 5-compatible regex engines.
We already interoperate with those other engines. When we have an awesome default answer, I don’t see why we’d be compelled to sugar them any more. > 2. Code generation. > > 3. Windows-style paths. > > 4. Doesn’t LaTeX use backslashes? Right, I’m only objecting to regex as the motivation. -Chris > > 5. Etc. > > I think the Motivation section undersells this proposal. Regexes are a strong > short-run use case, but in the long run, we’ll need this for other things. In > both cases, though, raw literals will be a useful addition to the language, > improving the clarity of Swift code much like multiline literals already > have. > > -- > Brent Royal-Gordon > Sent from my iPhone >
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