use «chevrons» to represent string literal

IchorDev zxinsworld at gmail.com
Mon Jan 20 00:09:10 UTC 2025


On Thursday, 16 January 2025 at 22:21:54 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> However the current stance is that we have possibly too many 
> string types. So far you have proposed new delimiters but not 
> new behaviors (which would be required to add it).

I’m personally quite happy with the choice of strings, especially 
the token delimited strings, token strings, and so on. I do wish 
token strings were more conducive to concatenation because they 
usually still have syntax highlighting, making them work well 
with rudimentary mixins, but if you need to use `{` then you 
can’t easily cut them off to `}~insert~q{` other text. Thankfully 
IES partially solves this, but it’s maybe a little overkill for 
most of my use-cases (fast code generation), so I’ll just put up 
with having my code be all one colour.


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