Although this data is convincing in some respects, I would like to note that xemacs is dead. The download off their main page did not even have any raw string literals.
I will still content that it is a useful feature to have. The cost of adding it (very minimal) are is to the benefit of having it. And why not? Emacs is also a language, unfortunately. We could all switch to guile and be done with it, but it appears the consensus is that elisp is finely tuned to do text processing. Elisp is a text processing language, and it should have as many features to facilitate in the processing of text as possible, this included.
-Matt
On Friday, July 25, 2014, chad <
address@hidden> wrote:
It might be helpful to canvas the use of #r"string" in [S]XEmacs
and see if anything especially nifty shows up. I think Stefan's
reservations mostly come from a feeling that the obvious problem
has a better solution elsewhere, but they have some actual experience
which might shed a different light on the topic.
~Chad