Nice idea. But can it be extended so you can choose the escape character () too?
/ Mirar
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2003-09-21 22:44: Subject: Re: wish: string with other quoting then \
I think that _if_ we should introduce yet another string syntax, then rather than trying to figure out the quote character to end all quote character, we should let the user pick an arbitrary quote character. Think \verb in TeX. In fact, #" could probably be extended in this fashion, as long as we restrict the arbitrariness of the quote character to not be alphanumeric, so as to avoid conflicts with other preprocessor(-like) directives. Of course, whitespace should not be allowed either.
That is:
#`foo`
would give you the backquote syntax,
#|weird, ain`t it|
would give you a different one where you can use backquotes, etc etc.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)