'pp' for D?

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On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 09:21:44 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Monday, 30 September 2013 at 21:24:28 UTC, linkrope wrote:
>> But putting quotes around a string value is obviously not 
>> enough.
>> What if the string contains a quote? "hell\"o" would become 
>> `"hell"o"`!
>
> Would would you want it be become?

I believe the basic idea of repr and friends is to output 
language literals. You could copy&paste the output back into a 
source file and use it.