[racket] Some design "whys" of regexps in Racket

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 00:50, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

> [...]
>
> > So I've been "lying" all the time. I was not used to write "\d{2}", but
> > actually the raw-string r"\d{2}".
>
> Here's how they're not really raw:
>
>  >>> r"foo\"
>  [...]
>  SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
>
>
Yep! Inconsistent and error-prone!
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