Re: OK what does ` mean - seriously seems to be not documented.
- Posted by gimlet Apr 23, 2014
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I am sorry that this started a war.
How is one supposed to talk to you if a simple question starts a war?
My problem with raw strings aka '`' aka `"""` has not been properly addressed.
1 It is extremely unclear what the purpose of raw strings is
in Eu:
given that
1. Eu raw strings remove carriage returns and therefore are
of limited use as regex source on Windows.
2. Because they cannot contain '`' and `"""` raw strings
cannot contain `"""` they cannot be text (they need to
be read in as source and interpreted).
3. The documentation say nothing about purpose except as
being multi-line - but if they do not do carriage
returns then how useful are they?
2 This is really my question. Given that `"$,"` is not just some
hacky back-end stuff allowing you to say "these characters"
what is the point? It seems they can be read as source, they
could be written as data, but they are really only strings and
have no separate existence.
