C Sharp Raw String Literals

[glass venture]

just saw this proposal

just saw this proposal for c# raw string literals and i think they're a step ahead of rust raw string literals. what do we think of them? https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/raw-string-literal.md

[static arrow]

I like the idea that it features https://docs.rs/indoc logic in and of itself, but I do believe that there are use cases where that's desirable, and others where it isn't. So I like that Rust has the latter, I'd just wish there be a raw string literal modifier to opt into the former

Although I have to admit that using the end of the string literal as a heuristic to guess the caller's intent is quite nifty. It won't cover 100% of use cases, but it will be a very handy an intuitive way of supporting 99.9%, while still having a convoluted way to write the 0.01% remaining percent (using concat!, or something like that).

[quartz shadow]

my reaction too

this is so neat

[glossy patrol]

I like it, but I don't like that """"<- this should be in the string""" won't work for obvious reasons

[opaque shell]

I definitely prefer rust's take, of using an unambiguous prefix to the opening quote.

I think it would be nice to have both "strings that can contain unescaped quotes but aren't raw" and "raw strings" as options in rust, like idk an s#"I'm not a "raw string"\nSo I contain a literal newline. But I can still contain unescaped quotes"# in addition to the usual raw strings.

(not an actual proposal for the syntax, I like the idea of eventually having something like s"" as Strings. I wonder if you could just do ##"some "string" here"## without needing a letter prefixing the whole construct, or if that would lead to ambiguity in parsing)

[static arrow]

Agreed, encountering a "some \"thing\"\nfoo" and then thinking about using a r#"…"# string instead feels like <see picture below>

[opaque shell]

I'm unfortunately unfamiliar with the image you're referring to, at least by that description

Ah yep

[deep scarab]

in rust you can do:

?play rs let lit = r###"hello """ ## """" world "###; println!("{lit}");

[sand hound]

hello """ ## """" world