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<p>So maybe stick with the three character string "..." even if it will not be legal syntax in most languages.</p>
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<p>Seems like for programming languages, being illegal would be an advantage. If something is inserting text I neither typed directly nor into the snippet, into my document, I'd at least like a compiler warning to track it down, rather than potentially compiling and doing something weird at runtime.</p>

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