RE: [External] : [PATCH] Interpret #r"..." as a raw string

[Drew Adams]

> Thanks drew,

Thanks for the reasons.

> As my understanding, raw-string is not a data type, but a
> notation that does not interpret escape sequences as written by
> the user.
> 
> Please see backslash info[^1].  This is a reason to support raw string.
> 
> If we have a raw-string notation, we can write string as is
> without any escape.

Is that the only reason?  Why is that important?

I don't mean to argue.  I don't understand why
this would be useful/needed.

I do realize that learning about escaping \ in
a Lisp string is necessary otherwise, but is
that a big bother?

Is there another reason?  After all, as you said,
many programming languages have raw-string support.
Is _their_ reason for that only a reason similar
to what you state for Lisp (e.g. escaping backslash
chars)?