(begin of a perhaps funny speculation)
Would be funny to make this lexical
rule more orthogonal, and allow to use it outside strings:
procedure main()
wri_
te("el perro de san roque no tiene_
rabo")
end
in that way, the rule would be a lexical general rule. Of course
would be necessary to forbid "_" to appear in the end of a literal
identifier.
(end of the speculation)
Personally, for thinks as SQL embedding, i would prefer to use
a preprocessor (of course also written in Icon!) to the sources, to
write something like:
query := __verbatim_to_string$
SELECT
f1,
f2,
f3,
f4
FROM
table1,
table2
WHERE
table1.id = table2.id $
Note that the '$' character delimiting the verbatim could be
any ASCII character that does not appear into the environment (TECO used that
form of delimitation, because any ASCII was a valid TECO string
constituent).
Perhaps to write a general purpose meta-ASCII preprocessor would be
a useful tarea.
Or perhaps not :)
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