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: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:19:26 -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="13373"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: db48x@db48x.net, eliz@gnu.org, conao3@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 01 06:20:35 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 1lGayx-0003PY-QC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 06:20:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36704 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGayw-0007Ex-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:20:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGaxs-0006Tz-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:19:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38671) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGaxr-0003ss-8Q; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:19:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lGaxq-0002kA-5F; Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:19:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:18:10 -0500) 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:265764 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. ]]] > > Is a "raw string" supposed to be a different data type, > > or is it supposed to be a different syntax for the string type? > AFAIK it's usually a different syntax for the same underlying type. Thanks. I don't see any problem with that. "Raw string" sounds like a different type of string. I suggest calling it "raw string syntax" for clarity. -- 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)