I've proposed adding raw string literals to C++. See
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2053.html
The C++ committee's reaction was favorable, although the specifics of
the delimiter syntax may change a bit. (Committee members find the R
prefix ugly, but no one has come up with a cleaner alternative. There is
also a request to allow multi-character delimiters.)
I've done a partial implementation in GCC, and will be happy to
contribute it should the final raw string literal proposal be accepted
for C++0x. Not implemented yet are raw string literals with embedded
newlines. For example:
char * foo = R"*abc
def*";
assert( strcmp(foo, "abc\ndef") == 0 ); // should succeed
So far, the changes to accommodate raw string literals have only touched
libcpp/charset.c and libcpp/lex.c, particularly lex.c's lex_string()
function. My initial thought is to also handle embedded newlines within
lex_string(), but before attempting that approach I'd like advice from
GCC maintainers familiar with GCC's lexical processing.
Who maintains libcpp/lex.c? What is the best way to proceed?
Thanks,
--Beman Dawes
