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Radical Utilities for Common Lisp
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Make it possible to escape newlines in the #/ reader macro #34

Closed libre-man closed 7 years ago

libre-man commented 7 years ago

As these should be used in documentation strings it might be really useful escape newlines as they don't look pretty (especially with whitespace) in many editors. Something like ~ at the end like format has would be really nice.

vseloved commented 7 years ago

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. Sorry for taking some time to reply, I was contemplating this idea, and I don't think it makes a lot of sense. For the specific use case of docstrings, I believe, post-processing is always possible if it's necessary to display them somewhere outside of the editor (and in the editor additional escaping will only clutter the view). As for the other use cases, format is more appropriate when you need something non-literal. Besides, it will add complexity to the implementation.