Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 30.06.2011 23:50, schrieb KennyTM~:
> On Jul 1, 11 05:39, bearophile wrote:
>> Jonathan M Davis:
>>
>>> Actually, I find the backticks to be by far the most pleasant way to
>>> get raw
>>> strings in D.
>>
>> I don't have backticks on my keyboard, so I use them only when they
>> are needed. They have even removed the backticks in the Python2 -> 
>> Python3 transition partially because of this (and partially because
>> there is a more obvious way to do it in Python, and Python tries to
>> keep only one obvious way to do things).
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> 
> Python's `xyz` is equivalent to repr(xyz). I think it is removed in
> Python 3 more because `...` is not worth the specialness as repr(). But
> D's `...` is much more worthy as a convenient literal syntax when
> involving '"' or '\'.
> 
> (I know some keyboard doesn't have '[' and ']'. So having no '`'
> shouldn't be the reason it is removed from the language.)

Keyboards without []? This makes programming nearly impossible O_O