Putting quotes in wysiwyg strings

[Lionello Lunesu]

Bill Baxter wrote:
>  From the spec:  'There are no escape sequences inside r" ":'
> 
> Shouldn't there be an exception for the " character itself?
> Right now the only way to put the quote into a wysiwyg string like
>     foo"bar
> is something like:
>     r"foo" ~'"'~ r"bar";
> or
>     r"foo" "\"" r"bar";
> or
>     r"foo" `"` r"bar";
> 
> It would be a lot nicer if one could just do:
> 
>     r"foo\"bar";


I'd prefer doubling the ", similar to program arguments on the command line:

r"foo""bar"

(This already compiles, but generates foobar instead of foo"bar; if you 
want foobar with the suggested behavior, you could add a space: r"foo" 
"bar")

L.