On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Peter Bex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:07:59AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Since escaping backslashes inside string literals can get tedious, >> I wondered wether a non-escaping string-syntax might be handy. >> Something like: >> >> #" ... " (doesn't treat backslashes special, with the >> exception of \") >> >> Any alternative suggestions? > > Don't we already have that, as the heredoc syntax?
Heredoc syntax is multiline, which seriously fubars your source formatting and syntax-highlighting. > > Could you give an example in which you need this? > regex strings, mostly. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
