On Apr 25, 2016, at 4:55 AM, Patrick Gili <[email protected]> wrote: > My thinking here was two-fold: > 1) Address the need to accommodate the lack of regex literals today, and > 2) Future-proof the proposal to accommodate the eventuality of regex literals.
MHO is that regex literals are an essential feature for Swift to eventually have, but that they are a huge design project and completely separate from multi-line string literals. -Chris > > -Patrick > >> On Apr 24, 2016, at 6:09 PM, Chris Lattner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Apr 22, 2016, at 12:54 PM, Patrick Gili via swift-evolution >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> If we use a quoting structure similar to Perl6, then we future proof the >>> grammar to accommodate regular expression literals (and multi-line regular >>> expression literals) later. It also gives us the possibility for support >>> for fine-grain control over escaping and interpolation. >> >> Wouldn’t the natural regex literal syntax be to enclose them in /’s, e.g. >> /foo*/ ? >> >> I don’t see how this proposal conflicts with that. >> >> -Chris >> > _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
