Racket raw strings

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In Racket you have to escape backslashes in strings, therefore Windows paths and regexes become verbose.

For example, the regular expression (.*)\1 can be represented with the string "(.*)\\1" or the regexp constant #rx"(.*)\\1"; the \ in the regular expression must be escaped to include it in a string or regexp constant. [Source: Regexp Syntax]

In many languages like Perl and Ruby regexes are supported syntactically /\([a-z]+\)/, in others there are optional raw strings, like in Python r"\([a-z]+\)". It seems that Racket doesn't support raw strings, where you don't need to escape backslashes, natively. Is there any method to implement them, a third-party library, a proposal, whatever?

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sindikat

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