I fear this thread is going off topic, however the groovy support for raw strings was already discussed in another thread some weeks ago.
http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/About-raw-string-and-enhanced-try-with-resource-td5750413.html Cheers, p p On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 1:16 PM Jochen Theodorou <[email protected]> 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 >
