Putting quotes in wysiwyg strings

[Bill Baxter]

 From the spec:  'There are no escape sequences inside r" ":'

Shouldn't there be an exception for the " character itself?
Right now the only way to put the quote into a wysiwyg string like
     foo"bar
is something like:
     r"foo" ~'"'~ r"bar";
or
     r"foo" "\"" r"bar";
or
     r"foo" `"` r"bar";

It would be a lot nicer if one could just do:

     r"foo\"bar";

And before you say I should just use ``, I'm writing an automatic 
resource wrapper that turns any text file into an embedded string, so I 
don't know ahead of time what's going to be in the string, and it may 
contain both `'s and "'s.

The goal is that the output string should look as much like the original 
text as possible.  One main use will be for embedding short script 
programs (like lua or minid) inside a D executable.

This:
     if (k & e.Shift) { ret ~= " `"` r"Shift" `"` r"; }
     if (k & e.Ctrl)  { if (ret) ret~=" `"` r"|" `"` r"; ret ~= " `"` 
r"Ctrl" `"` r"; }
     if (k & e.Alt)   { if (ret) ret~=" `"` r"|" `"` r"; ret ~= " `"` 
r"Alt" `"`
r"; }
     if (!ret) ret = " `"` r"None" `"` r";

definitely does not look very much like the original code.  :-(

But this does look reasonably close:
     if (k & e.Shift) { ret ~= \"Shift\"; }
     if (k & e.Ctrl)  { if (ret) ret~=\"|\"; ret ~= \"Ctrl\"; }
     if (k & e.Alt)   { if (ret) ret~=\"|\"; ret ~= \"Alt\"; }
     if (!ret) ret = \"None\";

--bb