Yes, I agree. I suggested it due to a misinterpretation of lisps rules. I would still like to implement #"..." but I'm not sure it would be accepted.
On Friday, July 25, 2014, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
Matthew Plant writes:
> What if we assume that any string surrounded immediately by
> parenthesis is a raw string literal?
Please don't. SXEmacs and XEmacs have had rawstring literals for many
years using the syntax #r"...". It may not be the best way to do
this, but it's (Common) Lisp-y, the prefix notation is familiar from
at least one popular non-Lisp language (Python), and it's about as
short a notation as you can imagine (I don't recall why #"..." was
out, though).
Use of parens for this purpose is likely to have wide-ranging
implications, as it means that they no longer have unambiguous
semantics, but require lookahead to interpret.