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Subject: Re: [relax-ng] Issue: long string literals


James Clark scripsit:

> "+" as above is open possibility for string concatenation, but that 
> requires some parsing lookahead to distinguish it from "+" meaning one or 
> more.

I definitely don't like overloading "+".

> Another possibility would be "." as in Perl.

Perl 6 is changing "." to "^" (with "^^" for XOR), so I wouldn't use that
as a precedent.  What about mere string concatenation, as in C?
We are dealing with literals here.

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