Rework introduction of "textual sigils" in guides #14591
Merged
+4
−4
Conversation
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
…e the 3 in question as 'textual sigils'
christhekeele
commented
Jun 19, 2025
| @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ iex> ~S(String without escape codes \x26 without #{interpolation}) | |||
| "String without escape codes \\x26 without \#{interpolation}" | |||
| ``` | |||
|
|
|||
| The following escape codes can be used in strings and charlists: | |||
| The following escape codes can be used in textual sigils: | |||
There was a problem hiding this comment.
I am unsure about this modification being fully accurate, but the ~w sigil seems to behave similarly to its peers (aside from stripping whitespace escape codes, which I do not find surprising behaviour).
|
💚 💙 💜 💛 ❤️ |
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
I noticed in the sigil guide that after introducing regex sigils, we were still claiming that we "ship with three other sigils", even after release of the Calendar sigils.
This PR corrects that outdated assertion and characterizes
~s,~c, and~was the "textual sigils", in reference to their utility in composing data structures from literal text without having to worry about escaping.