That doesn't strike you as a really bad idea? Quite apart from the maintenance nightmare, consider what happens if you need to include a backslash in a string.

That doesn't strike you as a really bad idea? Quite apart from the maintenance nightmare, consider what happens if you need to include a backslash in a string. Read the paper... It also proposes limiting all identifiers to one character, using Wingdings as variables, and overloading whitespace as an operator. ;)