From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Interpret #r"..." as a raw string Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:14:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20210227.031857.1351840144740816188.conao3@gmail.com> <83pn0mppjd.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgzqz6mu.fsf@db48x.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12867"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, conao3@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Brooks Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 27 17:16:43 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lG2Go-0003Dj-P4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:16:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43960 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lG2Gn-0003az-Rx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:16:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45328) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lG2F7-0002Gl-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:14:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34756) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lG2F7-0003Ow-FN; Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:14:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lG2F5-0007iL-0e; Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:14:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87zgzqz6mu.fsf@db48x.net> (message from Daniel Brooks on Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:39:05 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265730 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Many languages have multiple string types because they simplify the > process of writing strings that contain quotation characters, > backslashes, or other syntax such as interpolation. I'm trying to understand that message but it's unclear at a deep level. Is a "raw string" supposed to be a different data type, or is it supposed to be a different syntax for the string type? The companison with shell syntax does not help, because I don't think that question is meaningful for shell syntax. I don't know the othehr languages referred to. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)