On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 20:10:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
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
Yep I think you get what I mean: "clearly over the top",
particularly when each element of your arm is 50% over the top
and then when you try to show the top with an over-sized arm then
it's clearly an "over-toped position".
