DIP 1026---Deprecate Context-Sensitive String Literals---Community Review Round 1

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Tue Dec 3 21:31:07 UTC 2019


On Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 14:45:31 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 12:38:29 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I consider this low-hanging fruit: just deprecating a token 
> takes little implementation effort, and reduction in language 
> complexity is (as far as I know) always welcome for the usual 
> reasons:
> - less code in dmd
> - less specification text
> - less didactic material / stuff to learn for new D programmers
> - less bug/enhancement reports
> - any tool that re-implements some part of the compiler is 
> easier to make
>
> [...]

actually with textmate based grammars this is pretty easy to 
implement: 
https://github.com/Pure-D/code-d/blob/master/syntaxes/d.json#L2190-L2200


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