What are delimited strings good for?

[simendsjo]

On 10.04.2011 21:17, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Are we forgetting the fact that using delimited strings allows us to
> have syntax highlighting in editors?
>
> E.g.:
>
> void stringParser(string str)()
> {
>      mixin(str);
> }
>
> void main()
> {
>      stringParser!(q{
>          int x = 1;
>          int y = 2;
>
>          writefln("%s %s", x, y);
>      });
> }
>
> This is a huge benefit over having everything highlighted in one solid
> color as a string.

That's token strings. This is delimited strings:
q"(foo(xxx))"   // "foo(xxx)"
q"[foo{]"       // "foo{"