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0 pointsstormbrew8y ago0 comments

Ruby lets you use arbitrary tokens for string literals with %s{} (where the braces can be a bunch of things). I wish more languages would adopt this tbh.

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ziotom788y ago

C++11 has this feature too [1], e.g.:

    const char * str = R"*^*(This is string containing an embedded "quoted" string)*^*";

[1] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/string_literal

vorg8y ago

Apache Groovy also had that in its early 1.0 betas but they were removed before their official 1.0 release party.

__david__8y ago

Ruby lifted that from Perl.

  say qq<I can do '" in here>;

petters8y ago

C++ has something similar.

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