It would require changing the rules for lifetimes, with no benefit (and no 
clear new rule to use anyway). &'foo"delim" is perfectly legal today, and I see 
no reason to change that.

-Kevin

On Sep 22, 2013, at 4:26 PM, SiegeLord <slab...@aim.com> wrote:

> On 09/22/2013 07:10 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>> ' doesn't work because 'delim is parsed as a lifetime.
> 
> The parser will have to be modified to support raw strings in any of their 
> manifestations. Is it a fact that there is no possible parser than can 
> differentiate between 'delim and 'delim" ? I guess it'll give trouble to this 
> current syntax &'foo"blah", but it wouldn't be the first place in the grammar 
> where a space was necessary to disambiguate between constructs (& & comes to 
> mind).
> 
> -SL

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