+200. Or even
String s = β`" + `a raw string` + β`β;
Itβs perfectly okay to use both kinds of string in one expression.
> On Feb 23, 2018, at 4:00 PM, Brian Goetz <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> However, since the JEP's goal is to allow copy-paste of arbitrary text
>> without interpretation, I think the RawSP trick of assigning meaning to
>> whitespace is out of place. To most people, the raw string literal:
>>
>> ` and `
>>
>> denotes a perfectly good five-character string that will probably be
>> inserted between two other strings. Explaining that, no, it's really a
>> three-character string will not be popular.
>
> +100. The RawSP trick is clever, but too much so. There are ample simpler
> approaches for beginning/ending with BT:
>
> String s = BACKTICK + `a raw string` + BACKTICK;
> String s = `` `a raw string` ``.trim();
>
> These move the cognitive load on the user to the corner case, rather than
> landing it on the general case.
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