When will D get this feature?
bearophile
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Tue Oct 7 10:05:51 PDT 2008
Ary Borenszweig:
> Who is using q{} and \n in real code? Why that was introduced? What was
> the problem with normal string literals?
I don't understand the usefulness of \n instead of '\n', but I think the usefulness of q{} was to have a string that is ast-controlled that the editors don't color uniformly as a string. So I think \n can be removed, but q{} have a purpose, even if they may deserve a better syntax.
Bye,
bearophile
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