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

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 09:35:42PM +0000, Elronnd via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 21:20:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > The problem is that token strings require the contents to be *D
> > tokens*.  So if I need to emit snippets of another language, I'm out
> > of luck, and have to resort to quoted strings and Leaning Toothpick
> > Syndrome.
> 
> Bracket-delimited string (q"[text]", allowing <>, [], (), and {} as
> delimiters) are still allowed and do not need to contain valid tokens.

They still need to nest properly, though.  Generating BF snippets, for
example, wouldn't work.


T

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