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by cassowary 3206 days ago
«Hi. How do I open a quote?»

«Oh, you just use the « character.»

Parse error. Unexpected EOF.
1 comments
hk__2 3204 days ago
That wouldn’t be a good idea but you could adapt your parser to support that case. You can write `/* /* */` in C, for instance.

To clarify: we’d still need escaping but in fewer cases.

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