+1 for both. In particular I like that you can choose your own delimiter in Java 11 raw strings.
2018-05-15 12:48 GMT+02:00 Jesper Steen Møller <jes...@selskabet.org>: > On 15 May 2018, at 12.31, Paolo Di Tommaso <paolo.ditomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > No. There's an important difference: raw strings do not escape any special > character ie. backlashes, dollars, back-ticks, etc. > > > Ah, I didn't actually realize that Groovy's current '''multiline''' style > interpreted \ escapes. Haven't used it much, I suppose. > > This is very useful for DSLs when it's required to embed a piece of > foreign code (think for example Bash) into a string. With groovy > multi-line string you still need to escape a lot stuff, making very > difficult for the user to handle it. > > > I totally agree, I was just wrong about the semantics of the '''multiline, > non-interpolation string'''. > > -Jesper > >
