I realize this is a few years old but I wanted to give an update on my quest for quasi-literals. I did a complete quasi-literal framework for Java when I moved over to Oracle Labs. It used the annotation compiler + a few tweeks to the scanner and parser. You could extend the name space of the quasi-literal and have inline SQL or APL. All the parsing, validation, and code rewriting happened at compile time. We proposed it to the Java Product guys and got ignored to death.
As to the characters I did backquote for simple quasi-literal Strings and used Oxford Brackets for the quasi-literals with a language namespace. <| ...|>. Back quote can be hard to see but is nice for String substitute. At this point in time the language that does it most right is JavaScript. Thanks Mark Miller for all the hard work over the years! -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Re-vwnc-Does-anyone-have-a-new-string-literal-tp4667088p4936208.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
