Rawest raw string literals

Arthur Havlicek arthurhavlicek at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 14:57:28 EDT 2017


No escaping is not something possible, in your suggested syntax ") is 
ambigous. E.g. raw("abcd")") is ambigous.

Any sequence delimited string involves escaping, the only thing that 
wouldnt would be size-defined strings but they are impractical.

Le 20/04/2017 à 18:03, Mikhail V a écrit :
> On 20 April 2017 at 17:55, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:44 AM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What I think: why there is no some built-in function, for example like:
>>> s = raw("ffmpeg -i  "\\server-01\D\SER_Bigl__"")
>>>
>>> which would just need *one* quote sign in the beginning and on the end.
>>> Would it be useful, what do you think? I think looks better than triple quote.
>>> In the past there were quite a lot additions to string manipulation,
>>> probably there is already something like this.
>> What would be the argument passed to this function?
>>
>> ChrisA
>
> Yeah that is right, I cant imagine how this would work.
> But I think you get the idea- I'd want something dedicated
> to input raw strings with cute syntax and *no* escaping
> at all.
>
>
> Mikhail




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