Strings

This particle is about the design of strings and characters, from view of the syntax to language features.

Escape sequences

Jacy supports common C-like escape sequences, with some changes. These are: \n, \r, \t, \b, \f, \v, that have the same meaning as in other languages.

Numeric character literals: \### - octal representation \x## - hexadecimal representation \u## - unicode codepoint below 10000 \U#### - unicode codepoint

Proposals

Platform-dependent new-line

The idea is to use \p for new-line, on unix-like systems it will expand to \n (LF) and \r\n (CRLF).

Character literals

I really like single-quoted strings, idk why, but solutions to allow single-quoted strings in statically typed languages like prepending character literals with special token such as s'This is a string' are awful. Anyway, Swift gift me an solution -- no character literals 😐. Btw, Swift doesn't have single-quoted strings at all -- we will.

To infer that user assumed to use character instead of string we need to know types at first, thus, creating character becomes something run-time dependent 🤔.