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I think the fact it has 7 different types of string literals is a much larger chunk of semantic complexity.

1. ident string 2. signed ident 3. dotted ident 4. quoted 5. raw quoted 6. multiline 7. raw multiline each of these requires their own code path in the parser...

I mean, I am speaking from the perspective of an implementor, so I am very much concerned with implementation details.

> This discussion is definitely a digression, but: speaking as an implementor as well, most of those variations aren't meaningfully separate types to me. I have three string-parsing functions, for...

yes, but that's not what the docs say.

hey, i've been contemplating the fixed-output derivation problem for a bit now, and after trying and failing to catch this in nixpkgs, i was about to suggest exactly this change....

I think the grammar should be modified to require spaces around comparison and decedent operators. as far as I can tell, any other solution would require unbounded lookahead, due to...

I can submit advisories for these, though it will probably take until at least tomorrow. Should I also submit separate "unmaintained" advisories, or is one advisory per crate enough?