On 14/03/2025 21:08, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] wrote:
On 14/03/2025 17:37, Rob Landers wrote:What about a hybrid approach? Maybe something like `\\` that Tim suggested?As a perfect example of this, check out how the second paragraph is rendered wrong here: https://externals.io/message/126589#126741 (compare here: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/126741)
Just because some (incompetent) developers cannot grasp proper escaping should have no bearing whatsoever on language design.
Cheers, Bilge