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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 01:35:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Drqx0-0007ik-F6@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2oe9bjgd0.fsf@Sean-ORourkes-Computer.local> (sorourke@cs.ucsd.edu)

    > However, it won't fit in Emacs Lisp, because it can't be parsed
    > backwards.

    Yes, but there are 4HclubH4s for every taste.

Alas, that won't help, because symbols can end in `H4'.

						   Imagine trying to
    explain that design decision to someone in 10 years...

Since I made that design decision 20 years ago, why would 10 more
years make it hard to explain?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-11  5:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-08 14:16 Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw" Lennart Borgman
2005-07-08 15:07 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-08 15:49   ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-08 16:12     ` David Kastrup
2005-07-08 16:33       ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-08 16:43         ` David Kastrup
2005-07-08 16:40       ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-08 22:01 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-08 22:25   ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-09 17:01     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-09 17:40       ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-10 17:34         ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-10 21:28           ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-11 16:54             ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-11 19:49               ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-12  3:20                 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-09  5:22   ` Sean O'Rourke
2005-07-10  5:19     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-09  8:02   ` Markus Gritsch
2005-07-09  9:16     ` David Kastrup
2005-07-09 16:28       ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-09 16:49         ` David Kastrup
2005-07-10  5:19           ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-10  6:59             ` Sean O'Rourke
2005-07-10  8:24               ` David Kastrup
2005-07-11  5:35               ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]

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