> True, and it is why newLISP uses two delimiters for this purpose, {}
> and [text][/text]. The latter might not work well in clojure though
> because of its use of arrays.
Reader macros have full access to the text stream, so it would be
straightforward to define a Perlish heredoc syntax for big literals,
e.g.
#_SOMETEXT
foo bar
...
SOMETEXT
I don't really see much point in this proposal as a whole, though --
almost every syntax will require escaping *something*, whether it be
quotes or curly braces -- so don't view this as me championing anything.
I certainly consider triple-quotes to be nicer than #s{}, which is
(IMO) visually repellent.
The reader macro approach has no significant advantage over triple
quotes, because either way involves a change to Clojure's Java code.
Indeed, it might be impossible to escape } within the reader macro
version, which defeats the point.
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