What are delimited strings good for?

[Jonathan M Davis]

> On 4/10/11 11:03 AM, simendsjo wrote:
> > Ref http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/lex.html
> > 
> > What are some possible use cases for delimited strings?
> > What is solved by having this in the language?
> 
> Readability.
> 
> auto s = "This is 'something' that \"could\" have been made easier to
> read";
> 
> auto t = q"[This is 'something' that "could" have been made easier to
> read]";
> 
> (although I don't like that you have to type two chars after the q. In
> ruby you'd write
> 
> %q(This is 'something' that "could have been made easier to read)
> 
> )

WYSIWYG strings already give you that with everything but backticks. So, other 
than strings with both backticks and quotes in them, I don't see much point to 
delimited strings. The string that you gave could have been done with

auto t = `This is 'something' that "could" have been made easier to read`;

If that had been `something instead of 'something, _then_ the delimited string 
becomes useful, but given how rarely backticks are needed, it does seem rather 
odd to have delimited strings just for that. So, I definitely have to wonder 
why they exist.

- Jonathan M Davis