On 05/21/02 Aaron Sherman wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 12:57, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
> > Here's an easier one: backslash followed by the delimiter is that thing.
> > Everything else is literal.
> >
> > print 'c:\it\'s\easier\to\write\win32\paths\this\way';
> > print q{this is ok { and so is \} } C:\this };
>
> I desire you print your statement above. Would it be:
>
> print 'print \'c:\it\\'s\easier\to\write...\';';
>
> The quesiton here is that C<\\'>, which means something different in
> your recommendation than it means in Perl5, but still does the same
> thing....
C# has verbatim strings where backslash doesn't quote the next char:
Write (@"c:\it's\easier\to\write\win32\paths\this\way");
and
Write (@"Write (@""c:\it's\easier\to\write\win32\paths\this\way"")");
(note you need to use two double quotes: basically in verbatim strings
" escapes, but it can be only followed by itself).
string s = @"blah
continued blah";
works, too.
With a parser tweak perl could use @" and @' to introduce such strings
(they are not already taken as special vars): I don't see big quirks
with that notation.
lupus
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