Ah, yes, you do, somewhat obliquely:
But wait. "\nloaded" looks like it contains the end delimiter. Rats!!!
Captain we need more sequences.
Unfortunately, this was one of the paragraphs that didn’t read correctly in the
original (non-plain-text) email. Oh, the irony! :-)
In any case, thank you for helping me to make sure that this dead horse is now
_thoroughly_ dead.
> On Mar 13, 2019, at 2:36 PM, James Laskey <james.las...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> I think I mention that later in the doc.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 13, 2019, at 2:59 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
>>
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