[mercury-users] To the developers of Mercury!

[Michael Day]

> One thing that I think would be a major improvement over vim's Mercury
> syntax file would be highlighting foreign_{proc, code} with the syntax
> highlighting of the target language, rather than just as a string.

That could get tricky, given that it *is* just a string, so nested 
strings in foreign code need to be doubly escaped:

     printf(""Hello, world!\\n"");

or

     printf(\"Hello, world!\\n\");

Some kind of lexical hack to allow arbitrary text inside foreign code 
would be nice :)

Michael

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