Raw string literals and Unicode escapes

[Brian Goetz]

>
> However, since the JEP's goal is to allow copy-paste of arbitrary text 
> without interpretation, I think the RawSP trick of assigning meaning 
> to whitespace is out of place. To most people, the raw string literal:
>
>   ` and `
>
> denotes a perfectly good five-character string that will probably be 
> inserted between two other strings. Explaining that, no, it's really a 
> three-character string will not be popular.

+100.  The RawSP trick is clever, but too much so.  There are ample 
simpler approaches for beginning/ending with BT:

     String s = BACKTICK + `a raw string` + BACKTICK;
     String s = `` `a raw string` ``.trim();

These move the cognitive load on the user to the corner case, rather 
than landing it on the general case.