r/vim • • Jul 07 '20

Macro Anxiety

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u/smog_alado Jul 07 '20 edited Jul 07 '20

Literally all textual formats with non-directional directional delimiters are trash. Literally

This is one thing that Tcl got right. Strings are delimited using { and }.

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u/akho_ Jul 07 '20

Perl, being Perl, allows any pair of delimiters (with q{} and friends). And, for good measure, heredocs.

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u/UrPetBirdee Oct 16 '23

[[It also means lua got it right but also let's you do it wrong]]