On 2013-09-20, at 10:26 , Marijn Haverbeke wrote: >>> If I need to embed both ''' and """ in a string, I'm out of luck. >> >> The chance of that is as remote as can be. I've never seen or heard of >> it happen. And mind, the issue must happen *in a rawstring* which is >> even more unlikely. > > You should note that, as soon as you include something in the language > itself, that creates meaningful strings (programs in the language) > that include the token, which are not likely, at some point, to need > to be written as a multiline string in the language itself.
It's already noted, my objections are very much that this is highly unlikely to be an issue as it only comes to a head when needing *triple-quoted rawstrings* to include *their own* delimiters (meaning a triple-quoted rawstring which needs to include both triple-quoted delimiters at the same time). Even unlikelier given python will concatenate string literals during parsing. On 2013-09-20, at 10:25 , Kevin Ballard wrote: > Regular expressions is really the most common application here. Right, which was just about all I was saying in the original message. > People still use literal path separators in strings all the time in languages > that support path-building methods. Something I don't believe should be encouraged. _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
