Looks fine to me. If it's an extension to the literal syntax it's also a narrow scope change.
The standard escape sequences make things harder even for display purposes. We would also benefit from this, we are handling huge amounts of raw text and just for debugging purposes we have to mentally handle the \ escape character... berk. Our unit tests also suffer from this escaping mode. Using a literal syntax like this one would make life easier. Luc P. > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Softaddicts > <lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca>wrote: > > > > > I find raw string handling in XML simply ugly :) > > > Agreed. > > > > > > Do you have a suggestion on how to represent raw strings ? Something > > concrete > > we could discuss about ? > > > > > In several languages, they use a sequence of three double-quotes to mark > the beginning and the end of the raw string. > > In Clojure, I think raw strings would actually enhance the power of the edn > format rather than detract, specifically the tagged elements. > > Right now, edn supports things like: > #uuid "f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6"and > #inst "1985-04-12T23:20:50.52Z"and you can create your own. The built-ins > happen to not utilize double-quotes or backslashes, so escaping is not a > big deal, but if you want your tagged element to use a syntax where quotes > and backslashes are natural, you're out of luck and you get a big ugly > mess. Think how much uglier the above inst element would look if - and : > happened to be characters that required escaping. All I want is the > ability to do something like > > *#my/tag """45 \ "a" \ 50"""* > > if that's the most natural way to express the element rather than having to > type > > *#my/tag "45 \\ \"a\" \\ 50"* > > which is already starting to look ugly, and looks far uglier the more > characters are in there that require escaping. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Softaddicts<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail from my ipad! -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
