I would argue that is still workable, through various hacks. In the cond
case if you wanted to specify I raw string literal you would do
(("default")), which I think is still illegal.


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:

> Matthew Plant <maplant2@illinois.edu> writes:
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> > I think that raw string literals would be a really nice thing to add
> > to Emacs lisp.
>
> Yes, indeed.
>
> > What if we assume that any string surrounded immediately by
> > parenthesis is a raw string literal?  I'm pretty sure every instance
> > of ("...") is currently illegal,...
>
> Nope, inside a `cond', ("default") is a short alternative for (t
> "default").
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>