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From: Scott <xsco...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:55:22 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Aug 13 2009 11:55 pm
Subject: Re: Request for Discussion: user created reader macros
On Aug 13, 5:47 pm, Chas Emerick <cemer...@snowtide.com> wrote:
> A good thought, but #"foo" is reader syntax for defining a regular
been more clear. The first important part isn't which character triggers the arbitrary string literal (as you point out, #" is already taken), but that you get to choose the terminating delimiter such that it doesn't interfere with your DSL. The second part is that once you can cleanly express arbitrary string literals, a regular macro can substitute for a reader macro and avoids the namespace issues. > Double-quoted strings are decent for stuff like this. (Triple-quotes
that can contain both ''' (triple single quote) and """ (triple double quote) in it. (For instance if you were embedding Python source. :-) You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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