Programming languages shouldn't use "..." or "`" because programmers use those in prose to write about code. ES6 has both.
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@wycats Sure. Add nuance to taste, I still wouldn't have used `` if it'd been me. -
@jorendorff what other suggestion do you have? -
@wycats Python, C#, PHP, and Perl all have multiline strings without using backticks. -
@jorendorff They also didn't have to retrofit interpolation. Heredoc syntax is too heavy for interpolation. -
@wycats $"interpolated ${noun}s are fun" -
@jorendorff fails your original constraint: $ and @ are used in English. -
@wycats But they're not used to delimit code from text or used *within* code examples embedded in text. That's my complaint.
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