rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy
new lint: suggest using raw string literals if literal is more than X % escaped chars
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Description
If a short string literal escapes more than x% of its characters, clippy could suggest using a raw string literal:
let x = "\\/\\\\\"\"/\\";
suggest instead:
let x = r#"\//\\""//\"#;
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Research direction
The issue names no implementation file, test, or entry point. Start by locating Clippy’s existing lint infrastructure for string literals and its suggestion tests, then clarify the escaped-character threshold and raw-literal output behavior before adding coverage for the examples.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100