Distinguishing Strings By Delimiters Used

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I'm not sure what specific ideas you had in mind with this...

...but maybe the FENCE! proposal covers it?

Historically strings have presented a challenge to retaining the quoting style you used to make them, because:

  • Some strings are created programmatically and don't come from a LOAD, so they have no initial delimiters.

  • Mutations can make it so you can't use the same delimiter to output the string as when you LOADed it...

    >> str: "abc"
== "abc"

>> append str {"}
== {"abc}