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