Ian> If you do this at all, reuse the regular quotes, don't invent yet Ian> another weird and wonderful lexical syntax. Haskell is already bad Ian> enough that way, with \ used for lambda and so on. @" would be Ian> okay I guess. John> Why not just go the Python way and use """ ? That is, three John> literal quotes at the beginning and end. After all, Python has John> lifted quite a few things from Haskell. Time to return the John> favor. ;-) Because it will confuse language-agnostic tools. Do you use Emacs? How does it handle the Python syntax? I am not a Python programmer, so I can't answer that myself. But I'll hazard a guess: badly. -- She had a passion for anyone who could do anything really well. ... "Not for an engineer, not for a technician!" Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master & Margarita