Putting quotes in wysiwyg strings

[Hasan Aljudy]

renox wrote:
> Bah, I feel that putting any fixed delimitor for string is bond to create a
> problem for some user whether it is simple, double quotes..
> 
> Why not reuse a good idea from the shell: <<FOO .... FOO
> putting a customisable end-of-text word can avoid many problem.
> 
> Sure this makes the parser a bit more complex, but not that much..
> So for D it would be something like:
> r <word>" ... "<word> where word is some text without space
> or r(<word>)" .... "<word>  or the same thing but with a keyword "raw" instead of r.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> RenoX

Walter likes to keep the lexer independent of the parser.
I don't understand your suggestion very well, but it seems to me that it 
will make the lexer dependent on the parser, and maybe even on the 
semantic analyzer. Well, depending on how do you define these "words".