Re: [Chicken-users] "raw" strings

[Alex Shinn]

Peter Bex <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:07:59AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote:
>> 
>> Since escaping backslashes inside string literals can get tedious,
>> I wondered wether a non-escaping string-syntax might be handy.
>> Something like:
>> 
>>   #" ... "           (doesn't treat backslashes special, with the
>> exception of \")
>> 
>> Any alternative suggestions?
>
> Don't we already have that, as the heredoc syntax?
>
> Could you give an example in which you need this?

As a wild guess, regular expressions?  The syntax of regexps
is really horrible for any language which represents them as
plain strings.

On the other hand something like Gauche's #/.../ or Ruby's
#rx{...} for a regular expression literal would be even more
convenient, and potentially allow for the trailing imsx
modifiers.

-- 
Alex