How about borrowing a page from LaTeX? That has a \verb+text+ which can use any desired delimiter character. My thought is to have something like $+.....+ turning whatever was between the character following $ (here, +) until the next occurrence of that character into a literal string. A way to escape the chosen character is still desirable, though it could be chosen in most cases not to be needed. Perhaps the sequence $+ recurring would translate to a literal + (and any other $x digraph into a literal $x digraph). $ seems like a good choice because it suggests the letter s, as in string, is not already overloaded in Clojure for some following symbols (unlike #), and very rarely occurs in text with a nonwhitespace character afterward. (This post stands as an obvious exception, but even then, I've used $+ and $x only so using a third nonwhitespace character after the $ would allow quoting this post verbatim in the same manner.)Sole limitation on the following character would be that it not be whitespace (a stand-alone $ would be treated the same as it currently is, as would a $ with no leading whitespace, so referencing nested Java classes would not be broken; multicharacter symbols starting with $ would be but I expect there is as of yet little or no preexisting code with such symbols).
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