Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> writes:
> 4) Make a special read syntax for literal docstrings, e.g. #", and do away with the weird context-sensitive semantics of ordinary string literals altogether.
>
> Also, the test in read_literal_string should probably be for "will_dump_p" rather than the purify flag, since it's the dumping that prompts the deferral of docstring
> loading, not the identification of constants.
>
> Any preferences?

None in particular, except that option 4 is unacceptable as it is not
compatible with older code, and is completely different from all other
Lisp implementations.