[Issue 2658] Remove EscapeString literals.

2015-06-09 Thread via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 Andrei Alexandrescu changed: What|Removed |Added Version|unspecified |D2 --

[Issue 2658] Remove EscapeString literals.

2009-03-11 Thread d-bugmail
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 bugzi...@digitalmars.com changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|

[Issue 2658] Remove EscapeString literals.

2009-02-20 Thread d-bugmail
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 --- Comment #9 from bugzi...@digitalmars.com 2009-02-20 21:17 --- It's a good idea to remove them. The feature didn't turn out to be interesting or useful, and it's time to clean out some detritus. --

[Issue 2658] Remove EscapeString literals.

2009-02-18 Thread d-bugmail
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 --- Comment #8 from ma...@pochta.ru 2009-02-18 05:11 --- I also don't like these escaped chars hanging around on their own. Lambdas are expected to be just a minor syntax sugar for delegate literals: return statement and parameter typ

[Issue 2658] Remove EscapeString literals.

2009-02-16 Thread d-bugmail
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 --- Comment #7 from wbax...@gmail.com 2009-02-16 19:21 --- (In reply to comment #6) > I use them often when for literals of length 1. E.g. > > return stringVar ~ \n; That's no where near worth the price of giving up a whole symbol i

[Issue 2658] Remove EscapeString literals.

2009-02-16 Thread d-bugmail
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 --- Comment #6 from shro8...@vandals.uidaho.edu 2009-02-16 13:12 --- I use them often when for literals of length 1. E.g. return stringVar ~ \n; --

[Issue 2658] Remove EscapeString literals.

2009-02-16 Thread d-bugmail
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 --- Comment #5 from jarrett.billings...@gmail.com 2009-02-16 10:23 --- So has virtually every other language. I don't think I have *ever* seen the backslash string literals used in any D source. I doubt most people even know of thei

[Issue 2658] Remove EscapeString literals.

2009-02-16 Thread d-bugmail
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 --- Comment #4 from clugd...@yahoo.com.au 2009-02-16 05:38 --- C has got by with it perfectly well for an awful long time. --

[Issue 2658] Remove EscapeString literals.

2009-02-13 Thread d-bugmail
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 --- Comment #3 from shro8...@vandals.uidaho.edu 2009-02-13 13:25 --- Just to clarify, I /don't/ like the suggestion. --

[Issue 2658] Remove EscapeString literals.

2009-02-13 Thread d-bugmail
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 --- Comment #2 from a...@esperanto.org.ar 2009-02-13 11:55 --- Can you provide an example? Whenever I read a separated \n or \t it seems like it doesn't belong to the string and it confuses me, it makes it more unreadable. --

[Issue 2658] Remove EscapeString literals.

2009-02-13 Thread d-bugmail
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2658 --- Comment #1 from shro8...@vandals.uidaho.edu 2009-02-13 11:42 --- Try that again with several different \ things in the string. it quickly get unreadable. --