Re: Raw string literals in Emacs lisp.

[Matthew Plant]

I was under the impression that any ASCII  character (with a few exceptions, but not including "#") could be used to define a variable. I see know that was a mistake. I also support #"foo", although #r"foo" seems unnecessarily verbose.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> wrote:

Matthew Plant <address@hidden> writes:

> I would argue that is still workable, through various hacks. In the cond
> case if you wanted to specify I raw string literal you would do
> (("default")), which I think is still illegal.

Yes, that's illegal.  But why not #"foo" (like in Clojure regexps)?  Or
SXEmacs version of raw strings #r"foo"?  To me, that reads much better
than ("foo") and is much less ambiguous.

Bye,
Tassilo

>> > What if we assume that any string surrounded immediately by
>> > parenthesis is a raw string literal?  I'm pretty sure every instance
>> > of ("...") is currently illegal,...
>>
>> Nope, inside a `cond', ("default") is a short alternative for (t
>> "default").