When will D get this feature?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:56 AM, KennyTM~ <kennytm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Benji Smith wrote:
>>
>> http://www.xs4all.nl/~weegen/eelis/analogliterals.xhtml
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> --benji
>
> Because of the \ in the source code D can't parse this even if all the
> template stuffs are translated.
>
> Unless Walter clarifies what \ means outside a string (currently \n in the
> source code is directly translated to "\n". So
>
>  writefln("Hello" \n "world");
>
> is, em, valid.)
>

Erm, it is defined.  See "escape strings" here:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/lex.html