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On Thursday, 16 January 2025 at 22:21:54 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: > > So far you have proposed new delimiters but not new behaviors (which would be required to add it). Directional quotes are new... simpler behavior

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Re: use «chevrons» to represent string literal

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On Thursday, 16 January 2025 at 22:21:54 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:

However the current stance is that we have possibly too many string types. So far you have proposed new delimiters but not new behaviors (which would be required to add it).

I’m personally quite happy with the choice of strings, especially the token delimited strings, token strings, and so on. I do wish token strings were more conducive to concatenation because they usually still have syntax highlighting, making them work well with rudimentary mixins, but if you need to use { then you can’t easily cut them off to }~insert~q{ other text. Thankfully IES partially solves this, but it’s maybe a little overkill for most of my use-cases (fast code generation), so I’ll just put up with having my code be all one colour.

D has shied away from using grammar syntax based on characters that: 1. are not ASCII 2. are not on a standard keyboard We also do not use things like “quotes” in syntax. They are accepted in string literals, however. D does support named character entities: https://dlang.org/spec/entity.html in string literals. Any and all Unicode code points are supported in comments and string literals. Some are supported in identifiers, but I'm not convinced that is a good idea.

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