> On Jan 7, 2019, at 5:13 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com> wrote: > > >> \""•multiline, no escapes, cannot contain the nonce followed by two >> double quotes•"" >> >> where ‘•’ represents a nonce string (the same string at each end), which has >> to be one of the following: > > This is an interesting middle ground. > > Off the top of my head, I would think we’d have to pretty seriously restrict > the characters, so as to avoid parsing ambiguities: > > String s = “”; … // is this an empty string, or using semicolon as a > nonce?
It’s an empty string, because only \"" is followed by a nonce. > int i = “”.length() // am I invoking a method on the empty string, or > using dot as a nonce? The dot is not a nonce, because only \"" is followed by a nonce.
