String reboot (plain text)

Wed Mar 13 18:36:26 UTC 2019

I think I mention that later in the doc. 

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> On Mar 13, 2019, at 2:59 PM, Guy Steele <guy.steele at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On Mar 13, 2019, at 1:52 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
>> . . .
>> On 2/10/2019 1:10 PM, Jim Laskey wrote:
>>> … Let's try symmetry, either \" or "\ as the closing delimiter. "\ is preferable because then it doesn't look like an escape sequence (see Swift.)
>>> 
>>>          String html = \"<html>
>>>                            <body style="width: 100vw">
>>>                                  <p>Hello World.</p>
>>>                            </body>
>>>                            <script>console.log("\nloaded")</script>
>>>                          </html>"\;
> I believe there is a small problem with this specific example: doesn’t this string literal end just before the word “loaded” in the penultimate line?  I see a double quote that is (coincidentally) immediately followed by a backslash.
> 
> Sorry I failed to note this back in February.
> 
> Of course, using \”””…”””\ avoids this problem.
> 
> —Guy
> 