Re: Raw string literals in Emacs lisp.

[Matthew Plant <maplant2@illinois.edu>]

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> Maybe LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET and RIGHT
DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET would work (they look like << and >>).

I'm pretty sure that those look like existing ASCII characters as well ;-)


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:01:52 -0700 Matthew Plant <maplant2@illinois.edu>
> wrote:
>
> >> How about using a Unicode character as the marker? (prepares for
> stoning)
> MP> I'm on the fence about this idea. It certainly would make parsing in
> MP> reverse possible (assuming the reverse parsing functions do not
> operate on
> MP> char *) and easy, but it would also possibly mess up formatting. It
> also
> MP> might not add much convenience because frankly typing non-unicode
> MP> characters is _hard_.
>
> Eh, it's really not hard. If it was the only problem with this approach,
> it could be enabled in the default keybindings.
>
> MP>  One suggestion would be to use the unicode left and right
> double/single
> MP> quotation marks.
>
> Oh, no. The markers shouldn't look like existing ASCII characters or
> there will be lynchings. Maybe LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET and RIGHT
> DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET would work (they look like << and >>).
>
> Ted
>
>
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