One useful reader macro would be do the analog of a syntax-quote in an
ignored sexp ( #- is the analog of ~ ):

#_(ignore
  (continuing to ignore
    #-"except do not ignore this"
    and ignore this))

Another language feature that I think many wish for to have some way of
specifying a string without having to escape quotes within it.  This also
requires a reader macro.  Perl has good ideas in this area.

One way is to just have an alternate quote,

#| this is a string in which I don't need to escape "quotes"|

Or to make it possible to define the quote character
#|{  ..."e|t|c"era }|

Or to allow multi-character delimeters (heredoc)

#|EOS string goes in here EOS|

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