When will D get this feature?

[Sergey Gromov]

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:29:35 -0400,
Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> 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.

I've got this in my code:

// a newline sequence to be used for adding new lines, default is DOS
char[] g_NewLine = \r\n;

Not that it saves much typing.