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Pretty cool I guess, although there sure are a lot of such formats now ... but I like the typed-ness. I feel the spec warranted more discussion about why strin
by unwind 4y ago
Pretty cool I guess, although there sure are a lot of such formats now ... but I like the typed-ness.
I feel the spec warranted more discussion about why strings <look like this> instead of the way more common "like this", i.e. why angle brackets are used to quote strings. Probably to make it easier to embed quotes, but I'm not sure. It was rather surprising at least, although I guess you get used to it if you read a lot of raw files.
- avgcorrection 4y agoMaybe poor-man’s («») for (as you say) nesting strings.
- Joker_vD 4y agoThere are languages that use \q instead of \" as a representation for quote inside quoted strings; I personally like it, it really simplifies and speeds up searching for the end of a string during parsing, and makes regex-based processing much more reliable.