When will D get this feature?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

KennyTM~ wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Oh I see.

In wake of the recent comments on q{string}, I have the feeling this is 
a mistake of the same proportion as q{string}. It essentially hijacks 
"\" for pretty much all uses (lambdas were an idea) for the sake of a 
feature that is gratuitous and useless.

Andrei