Raw strings starting/ending with backtick

[Cay Horstmann]

I agree that it is inelegant that there is no good syntax for raw 
strings starting with a backtick. Some time ago 
(http://horstmann.com/unblog/2018-06-01), I suggested that an initial 
newline after the backticks could count as part of the raw string delimiter:

       String myNameInABox = ```
+-----+
| Cay |
+-----+```; // This string starts with +

Ok, maybe it's not brilliant, but it solves two problems: (1) how to 
format multiline strings that should be aligned, without having to strip 
out the initial newline (2) how to declare strings that start with a 
backtick.

Cheers,

Cay

Le 24/11/2018 à 18:57, Attila Kelemen a écrit :
> Thanks for all the answers. I was just a little curious if I missed 
> something and there is nice syntax for this as well. Not that I could 
> come up with something brilliant, only if Java was a brand new language, 
> then 3 "quote" types would solve all the issues (and escaping would be 
> completely useless). Obviously, this is not really an option here.
> 
> James Laskey <james.laskey at oracle.com <mailto:james.laskey at oracle.com>> 
> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 24., Szo, 18:30):
> 
> 
> 
>     Sent from my iPhone
> 
>      > On Nov 24, 2018, at 11:34 AM, Weijun Wang <weijun.wang at oracle.com
>     <mailto:weijun.wang at oracle.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >> On Nov 24, 2018, at 9:11 PM, Jim Laskey <james.laskey at oracle.com
>     <mailto:james.laskey at oracle.com>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >> There are several  approaches but the simplest is using
>     strip().  Example,
>      >>
>      >>   `` `abc` ``.strip()
>      >>
>      >> Concat is another approach,
>      >>
>      >>   “`” + `abc` + “`”
>      >
>      > But this means the literal inside the constant pool of the class
>     will be "`abc` ", right? This is a little uncomfortable to me.
>      >
>     That’s the plan.
> 
>      >>
>      >> Not perfect but other delimiter choices also have these edge cases.
>      >
>      > How about the Rust r###"..."### style?
> 
>      >
>      > Thanks
>      > Max
>      >
>      >>
>      >> Cheers,
>      >>
>      >> — Jim
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Sent from my iPad
>      >>
>      >>> On Nov 24, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Attila Kelemen
>     <attila.kelemen85 at gmail.com <mailto:attila.kelemen85 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >>>
>      >>> Hi,
>      >>>
>      >>> Reading the JEP on raw string literals, I saw no mentions of
>     the case when a string starts (or ends) with backtick. I guessed,
>     that maybe the compiler will close the literal when it finds more
>     than half the number of backticks than the beginning (nothing
>     implied this behaviour just tried it and I know that it might be
>     very suprising in other cases). I have tried with the latest early
>     access compiler and (not too suprisingly) it didn't behave this way
>     and simply failed when starting the literal with a backtick.
>      >>>
>      >>> My question is, of course: What is the strategy for this case?
>     Or is it explicitly ignored as too much of an edge case (and left to
>     the developer to deal with)?
>      >>>
>      >>> Thanks,
>      >>> Attila Kelemen
>      >>
>      >
> 


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