From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Raw strings (experimental patches inside) Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:45:52 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87wr1gux4f.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343987169 8124 80.91.229.3 (3 Aug 2012 09:46:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 09:46:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 03 11:46:10 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SxESP-0006Bl-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:46:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52581 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxESP-0003oZ-Az for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:46:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54107) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxESN-0003oG-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:46:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxESM-0003qC-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:46:07 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60306) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxESL-0003ob-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SxESK-000696-GU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:46:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 81.202.16.46.dyn.user.ono.com ([81.202.16.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:46:04 +0200 Original-Received: from pjb by 81.202.16.46.dyn.user.ono.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:46:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.202.16.46.dyn.user.ono.com Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NGQwNDM0Y2QyNTg3NDA0YTJlZTNkODAwZmZiY2MwYTk2MmU0ODg4MA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152140 Archived-At: Aurélien Aptel writes: > Hi all, > > When I type a regex I'm always annoyed by the amount of escaping I have to do. > I've always wished Emacs Lisp had raw strings ie. a syntax to type > litteral text without interpretation. > > I've made 2 patch for the reader (src/lread.c). There are proofs of > concepts, they should work on correct input but don't expect much. > > raw-string-python.diff use a syntax similar to python: Why go to python, when Common Lisp has a perfectly nice reader macro system to do that kind of things? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.