In my opinion, this is actually the central motivation for the feature — minimizing the friction (both reading and writing) of embedding small snippets from other programming languages in Java sources. So this disadvantage is a pretty big one.
That said, a library method to remove the piping (some variant of trimIndent) makes sense, so people who want to program this way can do so easily. > The only disadvantage I see in forcing a pipe prefix is inability to > just paste a big snippet from somewhere to the middle of Java program > in a plain text editor.
