Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Jonathan M Davis]

On 2011-06-30 13:12, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/30/2011 12:27 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > "Walter Bright"<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
> > news:iuig3e$2m1k$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > 
> >> Back ticks are used for D raw string literals, and I now think that was
> >> a mistake.
> > 
> > What would you have used instead?
> 
> D has other methods for raw literals, so the ` are not only ugly, they're
> redundant.

Actually, I find the backticks to be by far the most pleasant way to get raw 
strings in D. I don't particularly like the other syntaxes for it 
(particularly q{}). It may be that other considerations make it so that it 
would have been better not to use backticks for raw strings, but I really like 
it, and I use them all the time.

- Jonathan M Davis