On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 07:47:44PM +0000, Klaus via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > I mean when writing a D lexer, you necessarly reach the moment when > you think: > > "Oh no! is this feature just here to suck ?"
I use heredocs every now and then when I need to embed long strings in my program. It's one of the things I *like* about D, in fact. Nobody wants to manually parenthesize every quoted line with '"...\n"' when the program need to incorporate several pages of built-in help text, for example. Delimited strings are useful when writing code/text generators when you need to be able to use ' and " as literal characters without crazy leaning-toothpick syndrome \"x\"y\"z\"w\"'s sprinkled everywhere. The crazy variety of ways to write string literals in D, OTOH, *is* a bit over the top, as I found out myself when I also tried writing a D lexer. :-P T -- LINUX = Lousy Interface for Nefarious Unix Xenophobes.
