On 24/09/2008 10:53 AM, hadley wickham wrote:
I agree that that some sort of facility would be convenient.  Creating
latex output is
another situation where not having to escape backslashes would be convenient.

And regular expressions, of course.

There were proposals to do this last year (I think you participated in the discussion), but there was no agreement on how to do it. One was triple quotes as in Python, e.g.

'''c:\foo\bar'''

and another was some variation on heredocs from several languages, or \verb from TeX.

Duncan Murdoch

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