String reboot (plain text)

[Brian Goetz]

> String Tapas - serving (1)

I’m hungry already !

> Sated: multi-line embedded snippets of many languages (JSON, HTML, XML) without any (or minimal) escaping
> Sated: fat strings get fat delimiters
> Sated: One rule for escaping across all strings

The “one rule” thing is a pretty big deal.  What this means is that the only difference between a “classical” string and a “fat” string is the treatment of how it spans lines in the source — the escaping rules are the same.  These new strings are clearly just the more stout sibling of classical strings — nothing new to learn (yet).  I like that a lot.