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Yes, for at least two reasons:

Unsafe string-munging is too easy and seductive. Doing things the safe/secure way needs to be at least as easy.

And it makes for a growable language, the way Lisp macros do. E.g. https://github.com/erights/quasiParserGenerator This can reduce the demand for feature bloat in future language standards.



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