Jim’s example was a little hard to follow; (I think) he was pulling the string
of “what if we just let normal string literals span lines”, and then pulled
back from this to say “I think we actually do want a separate delimiter”, and
comes to the same conclusion you did.
> On Mar 13, 2019, at 1:59 PM, Guy Steele <guy.ste...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Mar 13, 2019, at 1:52 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com> wrote:
>> . . .
>> On 2/10/2019 1:10 PM, Jim Laskey wrote:
>>> … Let's try symmetry, either \" or "\ as the closing delimiter. "\ is
>>> preferable because then it doesn't look like an escape sequence (see Swift.)
>>>
>>> String html = \"<html>
>>> <body style="width: 100vw">
>>> <p>Hello World.</p>
>>> </body>
>>> <script>console.log("\nloaded")</script>
>>> </html>"\;
> I believe there is a small problem with this specific example: doesn’t this
> string literal end just before the word “loaded” in the penultimate line? I
> see a double quote that is (coincidentally) immediately followed by a
> backslash.
>
> Sorry I failed to note this back in February.
>
> Of course, using \”””…”””\ avoids this problem.
>
> —Guy
>
