Raw string literals and Unicode escapes
Guy Steele
guy.steele at oracle.com
Fri Feb 23 21:07:53 UTC 2018
+200. Or even
String s = “`" + `a raw string` + “`”;
It’s perfectly okay to use both kinds of string in one expression.
> On Feb 23, 2018, at 4:00 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> ` and `
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>> 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.
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> +100. The RawSP trick is clever, but too much so. There are ample simpler approaches for beginning/ending with BT:
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> String s = BACKTICK + `a raw string` + BACKTICK;
> String s = `` `a raw string` ``.trim();
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> These move the cognitive load on the user to the corner case, rather than landing it on the general case.
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