Re: wish: string with other quoting then \

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:20:01PM +0200, Mirar @ Pike developers forum wrote:

If it didn't need " quoted either, it would be quite useful for Pike programs writing Pike programs or HTML or the like...

There is unused (mostly) backquote character (`), which might serve this purpose (perhaps in combination with #):

string x = ` Some text with " characters " and multiple lines in it`

It might clutter (somehow) with operator definitions, but unlikely.

Or alternative (a-la Perl):

string x = #``__EOS this is a multiline "unquoted" string __EOS

This last one assuming that string quoted by backquotes may not be empty, of course.

The first syntax is good enough for REs as well, IMHO.

Regards, /Al