[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp
From: |
tomas |
Subject: |
Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp |
Date: |
Wed, 8 Sep 2021 18:05:32 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 10:31:26AM -0400, Anna Glasgall wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-09-08 at 09:10 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
[...]
> > And AFAIC adding raw strings just to halve the number of backslashes
> > in
> > regexps seems both too much and too little: you'd likely prefer a new
> > regexp syntax which doesn't require backslashes for grouping
> > and alternation.
> >
>
> I would be _thrilled_ to have that, but that seemed like it'd be even
> _more_ work than this is already ballooning into [...]
I just think these are two separate dimensions which happen to align
in the "regexp and backslash" case. Fixing each of those has its own
ergonomic potential.
I for one would be very thrilled with raw strings.
> > Stefan "not a big fan of raw strings in ELisp"
One of those rare cases I tend to disagree with Stefan. Which always
feels funny, because he's most of the time right ;-)
Cheers
- t
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, (continued)
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, tomas, 2021/09/09
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp,
tomas <=
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/08
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, tomas, 2021/09/09
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Mattias Engdegård, 2021/09/09
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/09
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Mattias Engdegård, 2021/09/09
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, tomas, 2021/09/09
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Augusto Stoffel, 2021/09/14
- Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp, Ihor Radchenko, 2021/09/14