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<h2>Alternate string quote syntaxes</h2><h3>Motivation</h3><ul><li>doc strings with examples could be more human readable</li><li><p>XML, JSON or SQL generation tests become filled with escaped quotes</p></li><li>pasting JSON into a string, which could then easily have `read-json` called on it</li></ul><h3>Possible Solutions</h3><h5>Python-like triple quoted strings</h5><p>Pros:</p><ul><li>relatively simple syntax, for humans and parsers</li></ul><p>Cons:</p><ul><li>minor breaking change - &quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot; which is  3 empty strings would now be interpreted as only one empty string</li><li>have to add reader macro</li><li>breaking change to every other tool that reads Clojure syntax<ul><li>including regexp-based syntax colorers, etc.</li></ul></li></ul><h5>Heredocs</h5><p>Pros: slightly more flexible than triple-quotes</p><p>Cons: more complex syntax</p><h5>String Interpolation / Templating</h5><p>Pros:</p><p>Cons:</p><p>Puzzles:</p><ul><li>is the built-in format function enough?</li></ul><h5>Resource files</h5><p>Pros:</p><ul><li>Already exists</li></ul><p>Cons:</p><ul><li>Separate file for each string</li><li>Can't use for macro-interpreted things like doc strings</li><li>In tests, having the test data separate from the test itself is hard to read</li></ul>