PROPOSAL: Multiline strings

[Mark Mahieu]

On 1 Mar 2009, at 08:58, Jeremy Manson wrote:
>
> Frankly, to me, the big win would actually not be multiline literals,
> but would be escaped String literals.  I'm sick of writing all of my
> regexps with twice as many \ characters as they need.
>
> Jeremy
>

Yeah :(  I've seen people convert tried and tested regexes to brute  
force String searches using indexOf and substring rather than put up  
with the escaping problem.

Mark