When will D get this feature?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 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.

FWIW I have *never* seen escape strings used.  They are a complete
waste of a symbol, it seems.