if you have a second parser (for eg. markdown) working after scrunkly, then you'll commonly find that to type something like this:
you will need to type something like:
say "\\*escaped asterisks\\*"
this is really unconventional and only needed to escape quotes. my idea is to introduce a new type of quote:
say `\*escaped asterisks\*`
backslashes has no effect in them, which also prevents you from typing the character ` in them, but i think that's mostly okay. alternatively strings similar to Lua's long strings could be used:
say [[\*escaped asterisks\*]]
the main issue is those are Hellish to parse with lua's regular expression tools
if you have a second parser (for eg. markdown) working after scrunkly, then you'll commonly find that to type something like this:
you will need to type something like:
this is really unconventional and only needed to escape quotes. my idea is to introduce a new type of quote:
backslashes has no effect in them, which also prevents you from typing the character ` in them, but i think that's mostly okay. alternatively strings similar to Lua's long strings could be used:
the main issue is those are Hellish to parse with lua's regular expression tools