Rawest raw string literals
Random832
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Thu Apr 20 16:43:00 EDT 2017
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017, at 16:01, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2017-04-20, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> > There _is_ a "universal solution"; it's called a Hollerith constant. :-)
>
> Wow, I haven't seen one of those in a _long_ time -- probably about 45
> years. I think the first FORTAN implementation I used was WATFIV,
> which had just introduced the character type. But, books/classes on
> FORTRAN all still covered Hollerith constants.
The IMAP protocol uses a similar kind of construct (the length is
enclosed in braces)
Even ignoring the maintenance difficulty, I don't think it's possible to
syntax highlight something like that on most common editors.
The best solution I can think of is to have a text editor designed to
parse a string literal, spawn a nested editor with the unescaped
contents of that string literal, and then re-escape it back to place in
the code. If we had that, then we wouldn't even need raw strings.
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