> Matching string literals is kind of gross, Only because the escape sequence for a quote is \" instead of, say, \q. Then it'd have been a very straightforward

> Matching string literals is kind of gross, Only because the escape sequence for a quote is \" instead of, say, \q. Then it'd have been a very straightforward regex "[^"]*" to match a string literal. On a slightly related note, having the escape sequence for a backslash to be \z or something like that instead of \\ mitigates the "leaning toothpick syndrome" quite a lot. Both of these choices are unpopular for no particular reason IMHO other than "it's different from what all the C-like languages do".