Putting quotes in wysiwyg strings
Bill Baxter
wbaxter at gmail.com
Thu Nov 23 03:32:46 PST 2006
renox wrote:
> Bah, I feel that putting any fixed delimitor for string is bond to create a
> problem for some user whether it is simple, double quotes..
>
> Why not reuse a good idea from the shell: <<FOO .... FOO
> putting a customisable end-of-text word can avoid many problem.
>
> Sure this makes the parser a bit more complex, but not that much..
> So for D it would be something like:
> r <word>" ... "<word> where word is some text without space
> or r(<word>)" .... "<word> or the same thing but with a keyword "raw" instead of r.
>
> Comments?
I wouldn't mind that, having gotten used to such "here-is documents" in
languages like Perl and PHP.
--bb
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