On October 30, 2019 1:18:09 PM UTC, Brian Goetz wrote:
>Indeed, regex is the biggest offender, with windows paths a distant
>second.
>
>To be fair, the escape mangling is only a small part of the challenge
>of reading regular expressions :)
True in general.
In my case, and I believe this is
Indeed, regex is the biggest offender, with windows paths a distant second.
To be fair, the escape mangling is only a small part of the challenge of
reading regular expressions :)
Perhaps your students would like a library like:
https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JavaVerbalExpressions
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On October 30, 2019 12:30:06 PM UTC, Brian Goetz wrote:
>First of all, the two are of different orders of magnitude; adding a
>few more escape sequences is not remotely the same thing as raw
>strings. So it’s not either/or.
>
>But, more importantly, I just don’t think raw strings are that ur
First of all, the two are of different orders of magnitude; adding a few more
escape sequences is not remotely the same thing as raw strings. So it’s not
either/or.
But, more importantly, I just don’t think raw strings are that urgent any more.
Text blocks addressed 95% of the pain; sure, w
Hi all,
Jim, Brian,
please do not use the same name "Escape Sequences For Line Continuation and
White Space (Preview)",
for two different features, one which is withdrawn (JDK-8227870) and one which
is still alive (JDK-8233117).
I'm coming back from JokerConf in Russia and everybody there were i
