IIUC, raw strings don't escape unicode as well as not supporting interpolation or backslash escaping. I think we'll inevitably need to look at supporting it.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:16 PM Jochen Theodorou <blackd...@gmx.org> wrote: > > > Am 11.09.2018 um 12:16 schrieb Paolo Di Tommaso: > > I mean that Java.next’s syntax for raw strings does not support variable > > interpolation. My understanding is that groovy won't either. > > we have actually 4 multiline string variants, of which 1 is not > supporting variable interpolation > http://groovy-lang.org/syntax.html#_string_summary_table > > What the Java version does and we not, is having no interpolation for > escapes. We have the dollar-slashy-string to have a different escape > symbol, but without escapes (raw strings) is nothing we have. > > And actually I don't think we need raw string literals in Groovy at > all... but that might be because I do not see good use for them beyond > regular expressions, and for those we have a solution in Groovy already. > > bye Jochen >
