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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: | Wed, 01 Jul 2015 09:56:56 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 |
Andy Moreton wrote:
is there a good reason why the documentation is a string containing escapes rather than a sexp using the normal quoting mechanisms ?
One good reason is inertia. :-) There's a lot of code dealing with docstrings; e.g., they can be in C code as well as in Lisp, and are processed specially by source transformation. That being said, how would the sexps work, and why would they be an improvement? Can you give an example?
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