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reply JG <someone somewhere.com> writes:
Hi,

The specification of string literals has either some errors or I 
don't understand what is meant by a Character.

For instance we have:

WysiwygString:
     r" WysiwygCharacters_opt " StringPostfix_opt

WysiwygCharacters:
     WysiwygCharacter
     WysiwygCharacter WysiwygCharacters

WysiwygCharacter:
     Character
     EndOfLine

Character:
     any Unicode character

Which to me means that e.g.
r"""
should be a WysiwygString, which the compiler thinks is not (not 
surprisingly).

Am I misunderstanding something?
May 03 2022
parent user1234 <user1234 12.de> writes:
On Tuesday, 3 May 2022 at 17:21:47 UTC, JG wrote:

 Hi,

 The specification of string literals has either some errors or 
 I don't understand what is meant by a Character.
 [...]
 Which to me means that e.g.
 r"""
 should be a WysiwygString, which the compiler thinks is not 
 (not surprisingly).

 Am I misunderstanding something?


The rule is not correct but the implementation in the lexer is.
That's a valid issue for dlang.org
May 03 2022