Tim BrayFew strata of geekery are more obsessive than regular-expression geekery. So let’s have some fun! In https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/22/Unbackslashing I explain why using the usual backslash “\” for escaping is hellishly inconvenient in a current project and propose replacing it with one of «, —, “, ¶, §, or ~. This Friday, I’ll be running some polls tagged #unbackslash to let you all join in.
zellyn@timbray Some thoughts:
* Of your choices, `~` seems most sane
* `%` is decent
* In `sed`, I tend to use bang: `s!foo/bar!foo/baz!`
* …which supports @jannem's point about letting you pick
* For the particular case of (presumable table-driven) Go unit tests, you could just write a helper that replaces `~` with `\\\\\\\\` and wrap in the test inputs in calls to that function.
ps. I stumbled across https://symbl.cc/en/unicode-table and found it lovely for browsing
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