Python's has really stupid handling of backslashes, and I really don't like how it cannot represent all valid strings. I'd really prefer not to make that same mistake.
Ruby's syntax cannot be used because % lexes as an operator. Of the 3, Lua's is probably the best, although it's a bit esoteric (with using [[ and nary a quote in sight). It seems roughly equivalent to C++11's syntax though, both in ease of use and flexibility. -Kevin On Sep 20, 2013, at 1:41 AM, Andres Osinski <andres.osin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Out of all the mentioned syntaxes, Python's seems simple and easy (and the > corner cases appear to be fairly unlikely for the actual use cases for raw > strings), Ruby's seems very powerful and if a couple of restrictions are > added could probably fit well, and Lua's seem very well designed by allowing > delimiters of arbitrary length. > > As a user of higher-level languages, all of these seem appealing to me. I > don't really feel that rawstring should be complicated to use, and I don't > really think the limitations are bad so long as they areexplicitly documented > (which is how it should be). > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Masklinn <maskl...@masklinn.net> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > Andrés Osinski > http://www.andresosinski.com.ar/ > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
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