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Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:09:24 -0400

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    > #r"foo bar baz"  ;; => "foo bar baz"
    > #r|foo "bar" baz|  ;; => "foo \"bar\" baz"

To implement this, it is not enough to change the Lisp reader.
The code for parsing sexps and moving over them needs to handle
the new construct too.  With luck, maybe they will need no change,
but people have to verify that.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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